Die Verwandlung
Excerpt
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er lag auf seinem panzerartig harten Rücken und sah, wenn er den ..."
About this book
One morning, Gregor Samsa can no longer leave for work. He has become something unrecognizable. The household adjusts, then hardens. Kafka renders the grotesque with calm precision, revealing the pressures of work and respectability and turns a private crisis into a mirror of modern life. The result is a lucid fable about obligation, dignity, and the edges of the self. A masterpiece that is as darkly comic as it is humane. This bilingual edition presents the original text side-by-side with a translation.