"Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka is a story about a man named Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning transformed into a bug, making you think about feeling alone and who you are. It shows his problems with a weird new body, and how his family changes and what people expect from you. At first, Gregor is mixed up and uncomfortable, thinking about his job as a traveling salesman. His family gets worried when he's late for work. They don't understand his situation and his family gets scared and don't understand, setting the stage for the exploration of feeling cut off from others and his family's reactions.
Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka
A traveling salesman's bizarre transformation into an insect forces him to confront his place within his family as he grapples with the anxieties of his metamorphosis.
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About the AuthorFranz Kafka was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature; he wrote in German. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and the novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
Franz Kafka was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature; he wrote in German. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and the novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.
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