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When-Gregor-Samsa-woke-up-one-morning-from-unsettling-dreams,-he-found-himself-changed-in-his-bed-into-a-monstrous-vermin.”-With-this-startling,-bizarre,-yet-surprisingly-funny-first-sentence,-Kafka-begins-his-masterpiece,-“The-Metamorphosis.”-It-is-the-story-of-a-young-man-who,-transformed-overnight-into-a-giant-beetlelike-insect,-becomes-an-object-of-disgrace-to-his-family,-an-outsider-in-his-own-home,-a-quintessentially-alienated-man.-A-harrowing—-though-absurdly-comic—-meditation-on-human-feelings-of-inadequecy,-guilt,-and-isolation,-“The-Metamorphosis”-has-taken-its-place-as-one-of-the-mosst-widely-read-and-influential-works-of-twentieth-century-fiction.-As-W.H.-Auden-wrote,-“-Kafka-is-important-to-us-because-his-predicament-is-the-predicament-of-modern-man.
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