During the autumn of 1912, in Prague, Franz Kafka (1883-1924) wrote The Metamorphosis, the subterranean and literal adventures of Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who, waking up one morning “from a dream full of nightmares, found himself in his bed. turned into a huge bug. Few of Kafka's books are so explicit and clear his world as in The Metamorphosis, in which the protagonist, turned into a beast, plunged into the most absolute isolation, is cruelly reduced to nothing and inexorably dragged to death . Kafka's other writings develop rigorous parallel variations, crush inexorable nightmares, assign enigmatic obsessions to disoriented and defeated characters, but perhaps The Metamorphosis is the narrative that best expresses "Kafkaesque primordial man." Hence, it deserves the unanimous qualification of perfect work and masterpiece, a decidedly superior text in the panorama of world l...read more