Traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes transformed into a monstrous insect and becomes a burden his family slowly comes to resent. A parable of alienation, duty, and the body.
Books that mention The Metamorphosis (7)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “"I assume you've read some of Kafka's stories?" I nod. "The Castle, and The Trial, 'The Metamorphosis,' plus that weird story about an execution device."”
2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol.”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “...with the ease and harmony of such equally ambitious works as Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Kafka's Metamorphosis.”
Deception by Philip Roth: “I remember those A students all reading Kafka's Letter to His Father and explaining exactly how "Metamorphosis" and The Trial derived from his relationship to his father.”
The Breast by Philip Roth: “"Since my father knows nothing of books, I told him how Gregor Samsa awakens in the Kafka story to discover that he has become an enormous beetle" / "teaching Gogol and Kafka every year—teaching 'The Nose' and 'Metamorphosis.'"”