Today I will talk about my favourite book, "The Metamorphosis" writing by the czech novelist, Franza Kafka. I really like reading any books, especially of science fiction, social problems and many topics more. This book is very interesting for me, because this was the first work that i understood.
When I read "The metamorphosis" I was thirteen years old, and the story shocked me especially for the existentials problems that Gregor suffered in his short but melancholic life. Since this moment I felt the emptiness of the modern men in a huge but complicated world.
Definitely this is a great work. "The Metamorphosis" make you think and to question to yourself the meaning of the life.
Here a example when Gregor Samsa discovered his transformation in an insect. This is the beggining of the story.
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. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out (Samsa was a traveling salesman) hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm disappeared.
Here a book description of Amazon
"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die
Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915.
It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th
century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the
western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor
Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
This review is very short, but i would agree. This novel is often cited across the world, because this is an amazing work, and the most brilliant book of literature, in my opinion.
One of the best books in the history of literature
