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Metamorphosis (Read Red) (Paperback)

by Michael Hofmann (Translator), Franz Kafka (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (26 Jan 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141023457
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141023458
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 596,123 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Waking after a night of troubled dreams, Gregor is surprised to find himself trapped in the body of a hideous man-sized bug. As he lies on his shell and gazes into space, his mother and father begin calling to him from outside his bedroom door. He must get out of bed, they tell him. He has to go to work. They need his money to live. Gregor replies to them nervously, his voice sounding strange to his ears. He'll be out very soon, he says. He's just getting ready! But he can't keep saying that forever.


About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. None of Kafka's novels was printed during his lifetime, and it was only with reluctance that he published a fraction of his shorter fiction. This fiction included Meditation (1913); The Judgment (1913); The Metamorphosis (1915); In the Penal Colony (1919); The Trial (1925); The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Change for the better?, 17 May 2009
By Barney McGrew "Charlie" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Kafka's surreal but morally challenging prose style is an acquired taste; however this novella is arguably his most accessible book and the odd tale about Gregor, a young man who awakes one day to discover he has changed into a man-sized beetle, is both darkly humourous and frankly bonkers. Nice little paperback edition with a great cover and at an affordable price.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good! Great! Wonderful!, 8 Feb 2007
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What a wonderful book! The imagination of Franz Kafka is boundless. It makes me wonder whether he was from the Mars. Moreover, the types of the sentences and expressions in the book are "ridiculous". But after reading it, I think "ridiculous" has become a good and positive word.

In all, I decide to restart reading it again immediately after I finish it.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a leap of the imagination,
By I. Waugh (Gateshead, Tyne and Wear) - See all my reviews
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Just writing this book proves the agility of Kafka's imagination.

This book affected my greatly in highlighting the extent to which all out happiness and affection from others can be bound up in the most fragile things (our appearance or good health, for example). Do you have any friends that would still stick by you if you were changed beyond recognition, but were still yourself inside?

This is a message that is pressed home until the ending, one which denies the reader any positive outcome but is all the more effective because of it.

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