Metamorphosis PB

<b>Translated edited and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold</b><br> <b>Featuring essays by Philip Roth W. H Auden and Walter Benjamin</b> <p/>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 Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece <i>The Metamorphosis.</i> 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. A harrowing--though absurdly comic--meditation on human feelings of inadequacy guilt and isolation <i>The Metamorphosis</i> has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. <p/>This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold's acclaimed English translation--long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike--along with seven critical essays by writers including Philip Roth W. H. Auden and Walter Benjamin background and contextual material and a new Introduction from Corngold himself.