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Title: The Metamorphosis
Author: Franz Kafka
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-27-11
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 836 votes
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
With thisstartling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny firstsentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, TheMetamorphosis. It is the story of ayoung traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant,beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace tohis family, an outsider in his own home, aquintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
A harrowing - thoughabsurdly comic - meditation on human feelings ofinadequacy, guilt, and isolation, TheMetamorphosis has taken its place as oneof the most widely read and influential works of20th-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote,Kafka is important to us because his predicamentis the predicament of modern man.
FRANZ KAFKA (18831924), one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century, was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. His unique body of writing, much of which is incomplete and was mainly published posthumously, is considered by some people to be among the most influential in Western literature, inspiring such writers as Albert Camus, Rex Warner, and Samuel Beckett.
Critic Reviews:
In The Metamorphosis Kafka reached the height of his mastery: he wrote something which he could never surpass, because there is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by - one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century. (Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981)