TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kafka,Franz
AU  - Corngold,Stanley
TI  - The metamorphosis
SN  - 0553213695
U1  - 823.912 21
PY  - 1986///
CY  - Toronto, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Bantam Books
KW  - Kafka, Franz,
KW  - Metamorphosis
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Black humor
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. 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  inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The  Metamorphosis has taken its place as one  of the most widely read and influential works of  twentieth-century fiction
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