Czech Republic

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

Identity & Belonging 1915

Summary

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes one morning transformed into a giant insect. His family's reaction — from shock to resentment to relief at his death — makes the novella a devastating study of alienation within the family unit.

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Franz Kafka

German-language novelist and short story writer (1883–1924) born in Prague, whose dreamlike, nightmarish fiction gave rise to the adjective "Kafkaesque." He died before most of his major works were published, having asked that they be destroyed.

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1915
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