Metamorphosis

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin🐛. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.”<br/><br/>Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis, with a stunning, weird, yet pleasantly funny first opening. It's the story of a young guy who, after being turned into a big beetle-like insect over night, becomes a source of embarrassment to his family, an outsider in his own house, and a man who is profoundly estranged.<br/>A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. The Metamorphosis is one of the most widely read and important pieces of twentieth-century fiction. It is a harrowing—though outrageously comic—meditation on human sentiments of inadequacy, shame, and isolation.