Metamorphosis

Author: Franz Kafka
Translator: Xiong Liang
Illustrator: Xiong Liang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Kafka is the pioneer of modernist literature, and "The Metamorphosis" is one of his representative works. If you want to understand modernist literature, the best way is to start by rereading "The Metamorphosis." In this book, Kafka describes the absurd plot of a small office worker, Gregor Samsa, who suddenly transforms into a large, repulsive insect that his family comes to despise. Through this, he reveals the superficial warmth and genuine loneliness and strangeness between people—including moral relationships—and vividly portrays the indifference between people in a capitalist society. Depicting "all the activities of human life and their realistic details" in a absurd and illogical world is precisely the talent of the famous novelist Kafka.