Metamorphosis-变形记

作者：Franz Kafka

书名：Metamorphosis《变形记》

中文简介：《变形记》是一部中篇小说，奥地利德语作家卡夫卡的代表作，发表于1915年。在《变形记》中，职业为推销员的主人翁一觉醒来，发现自己变成了一只巨大的甲虫。这是卡夫卡最著名的一部作品，也包含很多象征意义，和许多不同的阐释。

英文简介："As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." 

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like 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 inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most 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."