Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)

Great book

Kafka is a genius.

nice

When this book was pitched to me by a friend, I thought of the premise as a bit silly. Strangely enough, Kafka has an amazing ability to draw you in immediately and insist on your emotional investment. Its a short story, almost like a novella but it gets your attention in the first paragraph. I was hooked the entire way.

I've said it before but when I die, I wish to have written on my gravestone "no man was more right than Kaftka."

A must read classic

The nightmarish tale of Gregor Samsa is a darkly comedic take on alienation in highly industrialized and absurdly bureaucratic early 20th Century Europe but also a deeply philosophical rumination on one's own subjective existence itself. Small wonder this short story has been cited as a major influence by nearly every great thinker or writer since it was first published. This collection I...more

The nightmarish tale of Gregor Samsa is a darkly comedic take on alienation in highly industrialized and absurdly bureaucratic early 20th Century Europe but also a deeply philosophical rumination on one's own subjective existence itself. Small wonder this short story has been cited as a major influence by nearly every great thinker or writer since it was first published. This collection I believe also includes 'In the Penal Colony', another harrowing allegorical masterpiece from Kafka.   hide

Interesting but overvalued.

My husbands fav story. xxoocf