The Metamorphosis and Other Tales

Name: The Metamorphosis and Other Tales
Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781787369887

Author: Franz Kafka
Read by: Sebastian Blackwood
Language: English
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
ISBN: 9781787369887
Published: 7 May 2024
Imprint: Sovereign

transformation
alienation
existentialism
surrealism
isolation
identity
oppression
short stories
human condition
absurdity

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Gregor Samsa wakes as a monstrous insect and faces isolation, family dread, and the collapse of ordinary life, joined by other Kafka tales of people under bewildering pressure. Alienation and identity told with cold, exact strangeness. Spoken as when the body changes first and the world refuses to explain why you no longer fit.

Author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is the foundational voice of a whole modern territory — the literature of systems, shame, and waking dread. He specialised in situations that feel both dreamlike and bureaucratically precise: a man becomes an insect overnight; another is arrested without knowing the charge; a surveyor never reaches the castle that governs him.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781910150221