The Metamorphosis

" 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 inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, "The Metamorphosis" has taken its place as one of the mosst 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."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 02/01/1972
ISBN: 9780812417494
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.70d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 58068 / Metamorphosis
Reading Level: 10.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12