A real disaster! metamorphsis is a tragedy. imagine a man who is healthy and is the earner of the bread and butter for a family. Will the society love him and care for him; If he loses this potential and becomes a burden to the relatives. This story is just astonishing and a reader is seduced towards thinking the reality of the situations made by KAFKA. i believe that an entity which has even few elemnts of humanity, such as criminals and terminally ill people, need some kind of sympathy and humane respect.
Short and amazing. You really feel for all the characters in their new plight. I may even read the book again at some point.
I agree. This is a must read. I like the fact that the book focuses on the present and not in the past; how people perceive you as your are now and not as to how you were.
i'd like to say that, this book one of best
books i ever read. It represents the real
life in somehow ( How can a major change in
someone's life affect his surrounding).
It's full of action & reaction events.
I strongly recommand this book for all
interested readers.
This is one of the few nightmarish books that have not much "story stuff," but can leave you quite puzzled and startled once you've finished them, trying to understand what is what, and why did who.. etc
But to me, I've never read such a book. Just the first few lines, and I couldn't help finishing the book the same night. The thing that really got me mad was the thoughts of the main character, Gregor.
It's a real nightmare I wish I never go through, especially how it ends. Really as weird as it is loathsome.
Read it at your own peril...
I can't help but agree with Kurt on what's happening not just in Britain but across the pond. Metamorphosis is such a strange and perfect story that you are guaranteed to never forget it. An intellectual nightmare.
A true literary genius. Read as many of Kafka's short stories and books as you can, especially The Trial, which, in light of the way Britain seems to be heading into a kind of bureaucratic-manic state these days, is in many ways a more prophetic book than Orwell's 1984.
This book, to me, seems to represent the ongoing struggle between man and pest.
