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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Start date: February 1, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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May 30, 2008 Cecily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: magical-realism, identity, short-stories-and-novellas, kafka-and-kafkaesque, classics, favourites

NOTE: Some of the stories in this edition have also been published in separate collections, and those ones are reviewed under those titles (links included here).

Many are short, poignant vignettes, rather than stories, though some have a surreal/magical angle, and there's more humour than you might expect if you're new to Kafka. There's a definite voyeuristic slant to several (two are explicitly titled about looking through a window).

METAMORPHOSIS - the title story

As children, “metamorphosis” ...more

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Oct 31, 2009 Kellyanne rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, read-in-2009

I got this as a freebie in PDF format for my Sony Reader on www.goodreads.com. Its a strange story indeed about a man waking up and finding himself transformed into a bug and how his family try to adapt. This is Kafka's most famous short story although I have to admit to not knowing about him. ...more

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