The Metamorphosis/Franz Kafka
Descriere
" 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."
Despre autor
Franz Kafka a fost un scriitor ceh de limbă germană, evreu originar din Praga. Reprezentant remarcabil al prozei moderne, a exercitat o influență covârșitoare asupra literaturii postbelice.
