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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Original publication
1915
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
136
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Psychology, Poetic
Translated from
German

Book summary

Gregor Samsa, a devoted employee, wakes one morning transformed into a giant insect. Unable to work and rejected by his family, he gradually becomes a burden in his own home. As his isolation deepens, family bonds deteriorate, revealing a harsh social reality. This short, striking story explores alienation, loneliness, and loss of identity. The author offers a disturbing vision of the human condition, where absurdity exposes the fragility of relationships and social status.

The plot

“When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”.

The world of the book

A family behind closed doors. Almost the whole story takes place in the Samsa family’s apartment, in the early 20th century. The son, Gregor, always locks the three doors of his room.

The author

Franz Kafka, in Prague. A doctor of law, he lives with his parents, like Gregor, the hero of the book. By day he works in insurance; by night he writes. He asks his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts. Brod refuses…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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