“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
Gregor Samsa wakes up as a gigantic insect—and still worries about missing the train. The Metamorphosis reveals how deeply work, debt, and guilt colonize the imagination. This Kafka’s masterpiece turns absurdity into an exact diagnosis of modern life.
“[When I read Kafka] all of a sudden I understood how many other possibilities existed in literature outside the rational and extremely academic examples”
—Gabriel Garcia Marques, Nobel Prize in Literature Winner 1982