Metamorphosis. by Kafka, Franz - 1946.

New York:: Vanguard,, 1946.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good plus clipped dust jacket with shallow wear to the corners. This is Kafka's classic symbolic story of the disconnect between a man and his family as witnessed in the struggle of a man who acts like a beast. The Metamorphosis 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."