
Franz Kafka · 1915 · Surrealism
Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find he has become an enormous insect. The story's real horror isn't the transformation but the family's practical, slowly-darkening response to it. A short, suffocating masterpiece that has supplied a working adjective to a hundred languages.
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Franz KafkaCzech-German · 1883–1924
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a Czech-German writer who produced, in his short life, some of the most unsettling fiction in any language.
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