Rank 83 of 100
The Metamorphosis
Also known as Die Verwandlung, Metamorphosis
Synopsis
Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant insect and worries, first, that he will miss the train to work. Kafka never explains the change. He watches a family recalculate what a son is worth once he can no longer earn, and how quickly tenderness learns the language of burden.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1915
- Language
- German
- Country
- Austria-Hungary
- Form
- Novella
- Genre
- Literary, Philosophical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1900–1945
- Movement
- Modernist
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 74 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read modern novellas
- Kind
- Fiction