The Metamorphosis

by

Franz KAFKA

ABOUT THE BOOK

A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

REVIEWS BY OTHERS

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke up  from  troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his  bed into a horrible 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  beetle like 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.”

MY OWN THOUGHTS

It’s hard to admit I had never read it before. I really enjoyed it, though it is rather gloomy and depressing. But the descriptions of what’s happening and the inner reactions of the main character and his relatives are well done. I actually would have liked the book to be longer.  I would like an alternate ending, you know like sometimes you have alternate endings of movies, like say for instance, he decides to crawl outside the window, and all kinds of adventures unfold. But this is not what Kafka wrote…

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