Metamorphosis

‘One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.’ Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. A story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, who wakes up one day to...

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-language writer whose works, including The Trial and The Metamorphosis, explore alienation, bureaucracy, and existential anxiety.