The Metamorphosis
Excerpt
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. He lay on his back, which was hard as an armour-plate, and when he lifted his h..."
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.
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The Metamorphosis I
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The Metamorphosis II
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The Metamorphosis III
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