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Metamorphosis and The Trial (Paperback)
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Metamorphosis and The Trial (Paperback)
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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was born into a German speaking Jewish
family in Prague. He wrote in German and is regarded as one of the
most influential authors of the 20th century. His works examine the
themes of transformation, alienation, bullying and the characters
are given insuperable quests. This book contains two of his most
famous stories - "Metamorphosis" and "The Trial." Metamorphosis
begins like this: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from
troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a
horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-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. The bedding was hardly able
to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many
legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him,
waved about helplessly as he looked." The story is harrowing, but
funny in a dark way, it explores the themes of alienation - the
guilt, inadequacy and anguish of transformation. Samsa's
predicament is perhaps the predicament we all face at times, and
especially if we suffer illness or disability. This is one of the
most influential books of all time. The Trail also starts with a
stark problem: "Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K.,
he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was
arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his
breakfast by Mrs. Grubach's cook - Mrs. Grubach was his landlady -
but today she didn't come." We never find out what Josef K was
arrested for, he is a respected worker in a bank and he has to
defend himself against a charge about which he can get no
information. This is a terrifying tale but again is comic at times.
It explores the nightmare of excessive bureaucracy, hold onto your
hat because this book is a psychological roller-coaster.
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