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Kafka the metamorphosis

Gregor Samsa becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man after he wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect.

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  • "Metamorphosis"@en
  • "Metamorphosis and other short stories"@en
  • "Metamorphosis, Short stories"@en

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  • "As travelling salesman Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying 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 stay in place 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."
  • "Gregor Samsa becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man after he wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect."@en
  • "Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect. This extraordinary tale of imagination was written by Kafka against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe and remains not just an affecting tale but a disturbing allegory."@en
  • "Throughout his amazing career, Franz Kafka created some of the most haunting, timeless, and enduring images of the nightmare world of everyday life. First published in 1915, "The Metamorphosis" is one of Kafka's most famous works. The story begins when traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes from a series of disturbing dreams to discover that he has transformed overnight into a giant insect. Instead of arousing surprise or horror in his family, however, Gregor's condition is merely despised as an imposition, a burden.In addition to Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," this collection includes eight pieces by one of the fathers of the modern short story, Guy de Maupassant: "The Englishman," "The Piece of String," "The Necklace," "A Crisis," "The Will," "Love," "The Inn," and "Was It a Dream?""@en
  • "Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. This tale of imagination was written against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe and remains not just an affecting tale but a disturbing allegory."@en
  • "The eerie and macabre tale of a man who is suddenly and unexpectedly transformed into a giant insect!"@en
  • "Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration and his family's rejection, Samsa's plight is filled with underlying meaning. This important literary work, written against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Europe, remains not just an extraordinary tale of imagination, but also a disturbing allegory."@en
  • "The story of the isolation of man, represented by Gregor Samsa, who awakens transformed into a giant insect."
  • "The Metamorphosis 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. It is a harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation."
  • "The Metamorphosis 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. It is a harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation."@en
  • "Presents an abridgment of chapters 1-3 of Kafka's Die Verwandlung which deals with the ordeal of a young man who wakes up to find himself transformed into a large insect."
  • "A seemingly typical man wakes up one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect, and must deal with the depression over his new physical alteration, as well as the rejection of his family."
  • "A seemingly typical man wakes up one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect, and must deal with the depression over his new physical alteration, as well as the rejection of his family."@en
  • "A young man wakes to find himself transformed into an enormous insect. Allegory of man's suffering and isolation in a demanding yet insensitive and uncommunicative society."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Psychological fiction"
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  • "Kafka the metamorphosis"@en
  • "Metamorphosis"@en
  • "Metamorphosis"
  • "The metamorphosis"
  • "The metamorphosis"@en
  • "The Metamorphosis"
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