A man wakes up as a giant insect — a haunting parable of alienation.
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A man wakes up as a giant insect — and somehow that's the least disturbing thing in the story. Kafka's Metamorphosis remains one of literature's most haunting 100 pages.
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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches…
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