The Metamorphosis

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Kafka, Franz	4-week checkout	Due 04-24-2024
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""When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.""-- Provided by publisher.

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Fun, short read submitted by choichr on June 27, 2022, 9:53am I read this story without any expectations and I was pleasantly surprised! It was a short read - I was able to finish it in one sitting. I found it cynical, humorous, gross, and relatable. I highly recommend you give it a read - it's famous for a reason!

A creative story that stays with you submitted by akrrr08 on August 17, 2023, 9:47am I read this in high school but I still remember the storyline and the emotions I felt reading the book at the time.