The Metamorphosis with Related Readings by group of authors..Contents THE METAMORPHOSIS In this startling and powerful novella, a man awakes to find himself transformed into an insect. novella by Franz Kafka
Related Readings
from LETTER TO HIS FATHER
letter by Franz Kafka
from LETTERS TO FELICE
personal writings by Franz Kafka
DURATION OF CHILDHOOD and PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A YOUNG MAN
poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
GASTON
short story by William Saroyan
from NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
excerpt from the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Franz Kafka's family belonged to the German-speaking minority in Czechoslovakia. Kafka's family was tight-knit, and he felt pressured by his father to go into business. Kafka was successful in his career as an executive with an insurance company, but he was devoted to literature and spent all his free time working on stories and novels. An invalid for most of his life, Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of forty. Although he was infrequently published during his own lifetime, today Kafka is celebrated as a writer of worldwide importance.
