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	• Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Vanguard Pr, 1946 average customer review:based on 158 reviews
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highly recommended

I loved this book!!!!

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Not for the Faint of Heart

The Metamorphosis / 0-553-21369-5

When I was in 9th grade, my somewhat harried teacher attempted to assign me Ovid's Metamorphosis (a collection of Greek myths) and instead assigned me Kafka's Metamorphosis. Kafka's tale is short but packed with vivid symbolism in which a young man inexplicably wakes up one day as a large roach creature and subsequently fails to turn back into a man. After a confusing night with the novel, I reported back to the befuddled teacher, and she substituted another book, much to my relief.

Years later, I now reread Kafka with an adult's awe and appreciation, rather than the child's confusion. The novel is packed with deep symbolism and, even now, I could not tell you with confidence what it "means". I believe the story is of being trapped in a family that does not appreciate you, except for what you can do for them, and I believe the sad ending masks an even sadder one - that the young daughter will soon become the new symbolic 'roach' to the family, bringing in resources but never loved or appreciated. However, I have heard other interpretations, each meaningful and special. I recommend this book, but the first read through should be with a light eye, not questioning the strangeness nor looking too hard for meaning. Rather, I think Kafka is best when you allow the impressions to kind of wash over you as you go.

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Changes

Kafka easily, methodically draws you into a metamophosis of your own as you ready into this novel. Every time I read this work, I gain a new perspective and appreciation for the plight of the main character. I never feel like I've turned into a large insect, but I certainly give myself a good chill as Kafka brings it all to life.

Existentialists will appreciate how internal the narrative remains throughout. When you unexpectedly morph into another species, the laws of society start to apply differently to you...and naturally changes who you are as well...

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The Metamorphosis

I'd never read anything by Kafka and was reqd to do so for a book group I'm in. It was so compelling. I heartily recommend it, and it's a novella, so it's not a big time commitment. It grabs you from the first sentence.

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"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."

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