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The Metamorphosis

(Bantam Classics)

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across

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Characters

Franz Kafka (2)Helmut Richter (2)Stanley Corngold (1)Max Brück (1)Ralph Freedman (1)

“Whose severity excludes every improvement and reintegration of the condemned into society, can never be humanly just.”

— Helmut Richter, amazon.com

Tagged: Society, human compassion, humanity, Prejudice, Bias

“They depict in a willful form the very real distress of men who in the face of hard conditions of work and life search desperately for the right way.”

— Helmut Richter, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Work, life's challenges, Dreams

“The self and the various figures representing the world are equally important . . .”

— Ralph Freedman, amazon.com

Tagged: self, environment, Life, character, Personality

“Relationships are easier with animals than with men.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, People

“Time changes with respect to measurable clock time; the spatial distance covered corresponds to the quality of the events, as changing time. And so it comes about that one and the same distance can now be shorter, now longer, according to the intensity with which in has been traversed.”

— Max Brück, amazon.com

Tagged: Time, Life

“It was the uncertainty that was tormenting the others and excused their behavior.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Uncertainty, Uncertainties, People, Decisions

“What follows must not in fact happen; the world depicted is the world as it must not be.”

— Stanley Corngold, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Life