Franz Kafka. (2011). The Metamorphosis. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Franz Kafka. 2011. The Metamorphosis. Blackstone Publishing.

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. Blackstone Publishing, 2011.

Franz Kafka. The Metamorphosis. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2011.

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"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug."

With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.

A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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   • source: Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981
   • content: "In The Metamorphosis Kafka reached the height of his mastery: he wrote something which he could never surpass, because there is nothing which The Metamorphosis could be surpassed by—one of the few great, perfect poetic works of this century."
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     September 22, 2003
     Kuper has adapted short works by Kafka into comics before, but here he tackles the most famous one of all: the jet-black comedy that ensues after the luckless Gregor Samsa turns into a gigantic bug. The story loses a bit in translation (and the typeset text looks awkward in the context of Kuper's distinctly handmade drawings). A lot of the humor in the original comes from the way Kafka plays the story's absurdities absolutely deadpan, and the visuals oversell the joke, especially since Kuper draws all the human characters as broad caricatures. Even so, he works up a suitably creepy frisson, mostly thanks to his drawing style. Executed on scratchboard, it's a jittery, woodcut-inspired mass of sharp angles that owes a debt to both Frans Masereel (a Belgian woodcut artist who worked around Kafka's time) and MAD magazine's Will Elder. The knotty walls and floors of the Samsas' house look like they're about to dissolve into dust. In the book's best moments, Kuper lets his unerring design sense and command of visual shorthand carry the story. The jagged forms on the huge insect's belly are mirrored by folds in business clothes; thinking about the debt his parents owe his employer, Gregor imagines his insectoid body turning into money slipping through an hourglass. Every thing and person in this Metamorphosis seems silhouetted and carved, an effect that meshes neatly with Kafka's sense of nightmarish unreality.

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   • content: Edoardo Ballerini's narration provides an emotionally sensitive, intelligent take on Kafka's famous novella that captures its disturbing humor. He exhibits an easy proficiency in managing the pace, varying voices to represent various characters, and achieving clarity of phrasing and emphasis. Beyond that, his precise diction mirrors the hyperrealistic detailing of Gregor Samsa's new life as a giant insect. Ballerini's deftness, brisk pace, and light touch not only keep the text moving but also help convey the anxious, querulous, submissive feel of someone far more eager to please and fit in than to question his absurd fate. The nervous energy of Ballerini's reading reflects the subtle hysteria underlying the tale. The artistry of the narrator is as satisfying as the story is disquieting. W.M. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

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