{"product_id":"the-metamorphosis-9780553213690","title":"The Metamorphosis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Franz Kafka\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bantam Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bantam Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Inside Flap\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.\" With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, \"The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, \"The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the mosst widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, \"Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45087383748759,"sku":"9780553213690","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780553213690.webp?v=1769202734","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-metamorphosis-9780553213690","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}