The Metamorphosis
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The Metamorphosis
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Narrateur(s):
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Ralph Cosham
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Auteur(s):
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Franz Kafka
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With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It 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. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
A harrowing - though absurdly comic - meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of 20th-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”
FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924), one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century, was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. His unique body of writing, much of which is incomplete and was mainly published posthumously, is considered by some people to be among the most influential in Western literature, inspiring such writers as Albert Camus, Rex Warner, and Samuel Beckett.
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Really good book that makes you think
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Well performed.
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This is Kafka’s masterpiece on human feelings of inadequacy, familial guilt and isolation; and is considered one of the most influential books from one of the most influential writers of the 20th Century.
Ralph Cosham’s delivery adds to the absurdity of the whole situation, in a delightful way. Ending is just as weird as the beginning, but also thought-provoking.
Weird and wonderful
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entertaining but intellectual
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