METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka

METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka

RM had said he was reading this book in a 2017 interview. Metamorphosis tells the story of a man who wakes up one day having suddenly transformed into an insect, exploring his feelings of alienation and the behaviour of the people around him

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Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.

In her new translation of Kafka’s masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa’s grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment