Book Review : Metamorphosis
Book Name: Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Publisher: Fingerprint (Classics) Genre: Existentialist & Absurdist Literature Format: Paperback Print length: 78 pages Rating: 5/5 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a novella with a unique story of a human who transforms into a horrible vermin whose life resembles that of how that human had been living all these years. Book Blurb On Amazon 'One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.' Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. A story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, who wakes up one day to discover that he has metamorphosed into a bug, The Metamorphosis is a book that concerns itself with the themes of alienation, disillusionment and existentialism. As Samsa struggles to reconcile his humanity with his transformation, Kafka, very deftly, weaves his readers into a web that dea...