Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis
- Original publication
- 1915
- Bilingual edition
- June 12, 2026
- Pages
- 136
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆
- Translated from
- Deutsch
About this book
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 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.
The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.
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