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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.

Gregor Samsa lives an uneventful life. That is, until one morning he awakes to find himself transformed into... Read Full Overview

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find... Read Full Overview

"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections... Read Full Overview

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking... Read Full Overview

Edici n de bolsillo en tapa blanda completa y revisada.La metamorfosis relata la peripecia subterr nea y literal de Gregor Samsa, un viajante de comercio que al despertarse una ma ana de un sue o lleno de pesadillas se encontr en su cama convertido en un bicho enorme.La metamorfosis... Read Full Overview

A masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most recently for radio when BBC's Radio... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, along with her Translator's Note.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Mark M. Anderson.
- Three illustrations.
- Related texts by Kafka, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,... Read Full Overview

Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany his translations of his early 20th-century work.

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

Ao acordar, certa manh?, de sonhos inquietos, Gregor Samsa se deu conta de que havia se metamorfoseado num gigantesco inseto. Estava deitado na cama, sobre as costas, que eram t?o duras que pareciam uma armadura de metal e, ao levantar um pouco a cabe?a, visualizou a barriga... Read Full Overview

Die Metamorphose ist eine sehr angesehene und weithin appretierte Novelle von Franz Kafka, die erstmals 1915 ver?ffentlicht wurde. Sie wurde als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der Fiktion des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet und studiert an Hochschulen und Universit?ten in der westlichen... Read Full Overview

This version of the novella has been accommodated for German learners.

The original German version of the story has been aligned side-by-side with the official English translation by Ian Johnston.

German is printed on the... Read Full Overview