The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka (ed. and translated by Stanley Corngold)
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“The Metamorphosis tells the story of a turn-of-the-century, Central European textile salesman who wakes up one rainy morning to find himself changed, according to a not entirely reliable narrator, into a verminous insect—A HUGE ONE! This short novel, which the Nobel-Prize-winning intellectual Elias Canetti called “one of the few great, perfect poetic works of the century”—an opinion confirmed by Vladimir Nabokov—recounts the struggles of the afflicted person Gregor Samsa and his equally afflicted family to come to terms with this monstrous, unheard-of metamorphosis.” Read more...
Stanley Corngold, Literary Scholar
