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The Metamorphosis
'The Metamorphosis' (German: Die Verwandlung) is a 1915 novella bygd Franz Kafka, using a transformation theme to symbolize alienation. The story is quintessential in describing literary works by other authors as "Kafkaesque".
The story[edit]
The book begins with Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, waking one day to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin", most typically translated into English as "insect" or "cockroach". However, Kafka insisted that what Gregor transformed into should never be drawn, or even "seen from a distance", leaving the original German "ungeheuer Ungeziefer" intentionally vague.[citation needed]
Instead of focusing on his physical change, he instead complains about the weather. Being a traveling salesman, inclement weather would likely ruin his day. The true reality of his metamorphosis is complete when he sees his many legs waving in the air. However, he continues to resist any conscious recogni
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The Metamorphosis
1915 novella by Franz Kafka
This article is about the literary work by Franz Kafka. For the biological process, see Metamorphosis. For other uses, see Metamorphosis (disambiguation).
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation,[1] is a novella by Franz Kafkapublished in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insekt (German: ungeheueresUngeziefer, lit. "monstrousvermin") and struggles to adjust to this condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offered varied interpretations. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insekt is commonly depicted as a cockroach.
About 70 printed pages, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. It was first published in 1915 in the
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The Metamorphosis
Publisher
Kurt Wolff Verlag
Page length
53 pages, three chapters
The Metamorphosis (or Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka. Released in 1915, it details a salesman's life after he is transformed into a massive insect.
Characters[]
- Gregor Samsa
- Grete Samsa
- Mr. Samsa
- Mrs. Samsa
- The bondsman
Publisher's summary[]
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."
With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the