The Metamorphosis

Synopsis

“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.