Franz Kafka Audio

This new edition of Kafka’s terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts that used Kafka’s original manuscript and notes to create this text that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned....

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find he has been transformed into a gigantic insect....

Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister...

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, “The Transformation”) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle.

THE METAMORPHOSIS begins as its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a huge insect. This change is understandably difficult for Gregor, not to mention his family and business. It ends up costing him his life.

Franz Kafka's classic short novel tells the strange tale of put-upon salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning transformed into an insect.

Joseph K. works at a bank and has no particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone.

This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some ambiguous force.