The Metamorphosis (CD) (ISBN-13: 9781441789181)

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 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: 1441789189
ISBN-13: 9781441789181
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2011
Format: CD
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.20h x 6.50w x 1.20d