The Metamorphosis

In the world of Franz Kafka, the impossible happens routinely, almost without explanation. A person finds themselves face to face with absurdity, foreign rules, and the indifference of those around them — and tries to maintain dignity where reality itself denies them the right to be themselves. The collection includes works that have become the hallmark of the Kafkaesque world: «The Metamorphosis», «In the Penal Colony», «A Hunger Artist», «The Country Doctor» and other stories. In them, familiar life gradually becomes unsettling and unrecognizable, while behind simple, almost mundane events, loneliness, fear, guilt, and the painful desire of a person to find their place in the world emerge. «The Metamorphosis» — one of those books that cannot be read only as science fiction or only as a parable. Kafka turns absurdity into a mirror of human life and makes us ponder what happens to a person when society, family, and even their own body cease to be their home.