mehluv reviewed The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Would you still love me if i was a bug
5 stars
and would you trust your family to love you back
2 hours and 3 minutes; Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Published by Blackstone Audio, Inc..
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
- ASIN:
- B004Y42QUA
“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman 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. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
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 20th-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”
“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman 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. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
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 20th-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”
Subjects
- Fantasy fiction
- Children's fiction
- Metamorphosis
- Fiction
- Social problems
- English
- Fiction, psychological
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Family
- Insects
- Sales personnel
- Translations into English
- Families
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- Kafka, franz, 1883-1924
- Psychological fiction
- FICTION / Classics
- FICTION / Literary
- Classic Literature
- Alienation (Psychology)
- Gregor Samsa (Fictitious character)