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    The Metamorphosis

    Written by Franz Kafka

    Narrated by Jowanna Lewis

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    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as an exhausting and never-ending traffic. He sees his employer as a despot and would quickly quit his job were he not his family's sole breadwinner and working off his bankrupt father's debts... Famous works of the author Franz Kafka: "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), "Das Urteil" ("The Judgment"), Das Schloss (The Castle), Betrachtung (Contemplation), Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist), Briefe an Felice (Letters to Felice).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStrelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing Audio
    Release dateFeb 28, 2020
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    Franz Kafka

    Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.

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    • 1/5
      The narrator sounded like she was in an adult literacy class. Terrible audiobook!
    • 2/5
      Can't speak to the quality of the story as I could only make it a few minutes listening to this narrator whose empty delivery would be rivalled by a high school student's rendition.
    • 3/5
      There are some great points but I feel like a lot of the advice contradicts itself. For example, he says to stop watching tv then encourages you to watch an hour of comedy a day...
    • 1/5
      I have no idea wht people said it is a great book.
      Such a disappointment.