THE METAMORPHOSIS

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis, which tells of how a young man, Gregor Samsa, wakes to find himself transformed into a horrid beetle-like creature, is classic Kafka and deservedly the most famous of his works. Written during Kafka's first period of intense creative activity in late 1912, it was one of the few pieces published during his lifetime.

Franz Kafka began writing in his early twenties while studying law at the University of Prague from 1901 to 1906. In 1908, he began publishing extracts from his novel, Amerika (1927; America, 1938; better known as Amerika, 1946), and The Metamorphosis was written in ...