The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) [Paperback]  变态
Franz Kafka (Author)

Product Details
Paperback: 201 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics; First Edition edition (February 1, 1972)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553213695
ISBN-13: 978-0553213690
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.6 x 6.9 inches

Book Description
Release Date: February 1, 1972 | Series: Bantam Classics
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from  unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his  bed into a monstrous vermin." With this  startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first  sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The  Metamorphosis. It is the story of a  young man who, transformed overnight into a giant  beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to  his family, an outsider in his own home, a  quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though  absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of  inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, The  Metamorphosis has taken its place as one  of the mosst widely read and influential works of  twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote,  "Kafka is important to us because his predicament  is the predicament of modern man."