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.“

• Datum vydání: 30. 09. 1989
• Počet stran: 200
• Vazba: brožovaná vazba