Metamorphosis (Webster's German Thesaurus Edition)

Paperback, 88 pages

English language

Published March 5, 2006 by ICON Group International, Inc..

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978-0-497-25761-3
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Kafka Die Verwandlung The Metamorphosis

A story - not very long - about a man, Georg Samsa, who when waking up one morning in his bed finds himself changed into a kind of enormous bug – I always imagine a kind of big May-bug, lying on its back. At first the family cares for him or it, but slowly they lose interest – what shall they do with a bug? – and finally the bug dies from lack of food. When reduced to its simple plot, the story doesn’t seem like a big story, but as always there is more to it than the simple plot. I read somewhere about Nabukov (author of Lolita) that he held classes about this text, analysing the style and the technique of the narration. To most people the story will seem somewhat mysterious. And anybody can interprete such a story as they want. Of …

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  • German
  • Education / Bilingual Education
  • Foreign Language Study / German
  • Foreign Language Study
  • Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books
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