Length2h 3m
About this audiobook
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."
With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most 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."
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (1.7M)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, LibraryThing, Amazon
GenreLiterary Classics
Length2 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byGeoffrey Howard
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 19, 2011
LanguageEnglish
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