Book Description:
The Metamorphosis is Franz Kafka’s haunting and surreal novella about identity, isolation, and the burdens of existence. When Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect, his once-ordinary life unravels into alienation and quiet despair.
Trapped in a monstrous body, Gregor becomes a burden to his family, who struggle to cope with the shame and inconvenience of his condition. As the world around him grows colder and more indifferent, Kafka crafts a chilling allegory of human fragility and the limits of empathy.
Bleakly comic and profoundly moving, The Metamorphosis remains one of modern literature’s most powerful explorations of the absurd and the existential.