The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Franz Kafka

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I love "The Metamorphosis" and have read it several times. I know some people probably think I'm crazy. (My friend, Natalie, said she could never get over the giant bug thing.) Personally, I love the weirdness of the Modernist period. (

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jolee | Mar 22, 2006 |

The Metamorphosis definately makes you see how insignificant your life really is to others. While you are useful you are loved and valued. When you are no longer useful you begin to be an annoyance and when you have descended to being uncomfortable and a burden to others they wish you to disappear altogether. Fantastic story of a man's life reduced to that of a bug.
The Penal Colony is a valuable statement of how too much power in one man's hands to exercise judgement is terrifying. Do not read this if your squeamish, it's pretty gruesome.

I loved all of the stories in this edition.

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

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1915

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It was on a Sunday morning in the loveliest part of the spring.

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The Dover Thrift edition is a slim book containing only five Kafka stories. Please do not add/combine with the other editions.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486290301, Paperback)

Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka’s most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." Note.

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