The Metamorphosis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812417494)

" 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."

Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN-10: 0812417496
ISBN-13: 9780812417494
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1972
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.5
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 58068 / Metamorphosis