Name: Selin Özdemir's review of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Item: The Metamorphosis
Rating: 5
Author: Selin Özdemir

Franz Kafka

Change really BUGGED him! Poor old Gregor. One day he's depressed about his dreary travelling salesman gig, the next, he's roaching around the apartment and disgusting his family. All that's left is creeping the walls and eating garbage. How's his sis ever going to find a sugar daddy with her grotty bro in tow?

Change really BUGGED him!

The Metamorphosis

Oriana andrade

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

He thought back on his family with tenderness and love. His opinion that he must by all means disappear was possibly even more emphatic than that of his sister. He remained in this state of empty, peaceful reflection until the clocktower struck the third hour of morning. He watched as everything began to lighten outside his window. Then his head sank all the way to the floor without volition and from his nostrils his last breath faintly streamed.

With a certain definitiveness he sensed, terrified, that everything was about to collapse all around him, and so he waited. 

“would you love me if i was a worm?” just more complicated

tuna

They had been good times and they had never come again, at least not with the same splendour

The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides.

Die Verwandlung

Luca Stromann

Anfangs rief sie ihn auch zu sich herbei, mit Worten, die sie wahrscheinlich für freundlich hielt, wie »Komm mal herüber, alter Mistkäfer!« oder »Seht mal den alten Mistkäfer!«

[…] denn ihn hätte man doch in einer passenden Kiste mit ein paar Luftlöchern leicht transportieren können;

Poor old Gregor. One day he's depressed about his dreary travelling salesman gig, the next, he's roaching around the apartment and disgusting his family. All that's left is creeping the walls and eating garbage. How's his sis ever going to find a sugar daddy with her grotty bro in tow? Latest in the series of classic novels with unique retro pulp covers from original artwork and a pleasing dollop of wry humour.

Metamorphosis

Shelby Doherty

Erzählung

Franzi

For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Elina Berzina

Selin Özdemir

This is my very first Kafka book. I really enjoyed the writing style but I am still unsure on how I feel about it overall. The book takes a rather nihilistic outlook but perhaps that's also a realistic one. I mean what could you do if you became a bug overnight but feel terrible. Society is definitely not ready for bug people.  Would our families continue to love us if we were giant bugs? I suppose I have a lot to think about. In writing this I realise Franz Kafka was the first person to ask if we would still love him if he was a worm.  Due to its short length I think "the metamorphosis" is worth trying, while it may not be for everyone i think it holds up as a classic for a reason.

Marz 

literally "would you still love me if i was a [thing]" but in this instance it's a dung beetle and no one loves you

bunny♡﻿

Amna A.

Update:
After getting halfway through the author's biography, I came to understand that Franz Kafka has developed a feeling of antisemitism against his own self due to how the society of that time spoke of Jews. So it could be possible that he saw himself as the harmless bug-like creature, shunned upon by society because of who he was rather than what he did.


There was this graphic biography that looked interesting about the life of Franz Kafka. So I thought I should read a couple of his works before indulging in his life, so I chose The Metamorphosis. This book was strange. It started out with Gregor, the only provider for his family, waking up as he was transforming into a foreign creature with tentacles and a huge head. Gregor then became resented by his parents and sister whom he previously sacrificed many years of his life working to earn for them. But now that he had morphed into another being who could barely leave his room, he began to be a burden on them. It soon came to be that everybody within the household had given up on who once was the most important member of the family, and they convinced themselves that something must be done to get rid of the creature who could never have been the Gregor they knew. Of course, Gregor was still conscious of what was going on during the conversations his family had but he lacked the skill to communicate his thoughts back to them. I'm not sure what the symbolism here is, perhaps it's the idea of being unexpectedly shunned by society and alienated by those whom you trusted once you start being different from what is expected of you. Or of how, once you start being useless, people simply forget all that you've done for them and discard you out of their lives.

chris

only reason i read this is bc mad ppl quote it but when i ask them if they’ve read it they’re like no

Selin Igten

i think i missed the point. nicely written though

That’s actually so beautiful and sad. As someone chronically ill just as Kafka was I could really relate to Gregor because this is how I was treated by some people when I got my diagnosis, I was treated as if I was nothing but a disgusting bug. It really touched my heart and I feel so sorry for Kafka and Gregor. 

Yalin Tsikun

manda

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." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

britt

грустно, что очнувшись насекомым, первой мыслью Грегора была его работа и семья, а не то, что он буквально вдруг стал огромным жуком. он реально жил только ими и ради них. превращение по сути его не сильно беспокоило, ведь так он смог хоть каким-то образом вырваться из оков работы и долга перед семьей, хотя и так тоже он не смог пожить для себя. чувствовала отвращение все время пока читала, но то, как вся семья выдыхает с облегчением после смерти Грегора было самым ужасным.

повесть тяжелая, удивляюсь, как Кафка умудряется таким маленьким произведением заставить человека создать десятки аллегорий, задуматься о своих ценностях, перечувствовать столько эмоций

aziza

would you still love me if i was a bug?

грустно, что очнувшись насекомым, первой мыслью Грегора была его работа и семья, а не то, что он буквально вдруг стал огромным жуком. он реально жил только ими и ради них. превращение по сути его не сильно беспокоило, ведь так он смог хоть каким-то образом вырваться из оков работы и долга перед семьей, хотя и так тоже он не смог пожить для себя. чувствовала отвращение все время пока читала, но то, как вся семья выдыхает с облегчением после смерти Грегора было самым ужасным.

повесть тяжелая, удивляюсь, как Кафка умудряется таким маленьким произведением заставить человека создать десятки аллегорий, задуматься о своих ценностях, перечувствовать столько эмоций

Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early twentieth-century work about Gregor Samsa, an ordinary man who wakes up one morning only to discover that he has been transformed into a monstrous insect and must deal with his physical alteration, as well as the alienation from his family. Reprint.

Huiting Lim

Metamorphosis is an interesting existentialist novel that despite sounding like something absolutely ridiculous at first glance, left with me questioning what it means to be human and what defines our identity. It’s isolating and depressing, but an intriguing read nonetheless.

The metamorphosis

It was okay, I didn't love it but also didn't hate it. Don't really know what to say. Meh

Kendall McClain

Shedding some tears for bug man, brilliant and hurtful and I want to write an essay on it

I now understand the true meaning of kafkaesque 

Poor Gregor :( 

I now understand the true meaning of kafkaesque 

_linia_

Deepika Ramesh

A Metamorfose

Archiell

désirée

“was he a beast, that music so moved him?”

franz kafka you will be paying for my therapy.

“was he a beast, that music so moved him?”

franz kafka you will be paying for my therapy.

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así se siente ser una chica en sus 20s



Sarah Pitts

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works -- including such timeless pieces of modern fiction as "The Judgment" and "The Stoker" -- now includes two new stories, "First Sorrow" and "The Hunger Artist."

The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis, in the Penal Colony and Other Stories

y✦

✦ kafka crash course
✦ why is he like that but also.. damn, true
✦ faves: in the penal colony, the judgment
✦ she had THOUGHTS
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Creo que es el libro perfecto para gente que se interesa por comenzar el hábito lector fuera de las comedias románticas que uno lee cuando es adolescente; y para la gente que se siente cómodo en su propia tristeza.

Lectura corta y muy fluida que puede que te haga sentir identificado en algún aspecto de tu vida, gracias a dios a los amigos que rescataron su manuscrito.

Ximena Martini

Creo que es el libro perfecto para gente que se interesa por comenzar el hábito lector fuera de las comedias románticas que uno lee cuando es adolescente; y para la gente que se siente cómodo en su propia tristeza.

Lectura corta y muy fluida que puede que te haga sentir identificado en algún aspecto de tu vida, gracias a dios a los amigos que rescataron su manuscrito.

La Metamorfosis

a pesar de ser una lectura corta transmite muchas emociones

se siente lo mismo que ser una adolescente

Alondra Ayon

a pesar de ser una lectura corta transmite muchas emociones

se siente lo mismo que ser una adolescente

iamazoo

thanks to natalee for the recommendation brb crying

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