Book description
'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.'
With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by…
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1 author picked The Metamorphosis and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Kafka’s stories pulled me right in from the first line to the last. His way of writing about the absurdities of life, of the numbing bureaucracy of government, and of life itself helped explain my feelings about my own world.
I have read and re-read his stories and marveled at his understanding of the challenges that society presents to the individual. His suffering is the suffering of the human race. I have often found myself in “Kafkaest” situations. Having read Kafka, they’re easier to deal with.
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