Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, 1915
A salesman wakes as a vermin and his family slowly reorganises around the problem of keeping him. Read it for the flat, exact prose and the horror of ordinary rooms.
Franz Kafka
1883–1924
Kafka worked by day at Prague's Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, assessing factory-injury claims, and asked that the insect never be illustrated on the book's cover.
Feels like dread, family and longing.
What still proves a person is human when the body says otherwise.
Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her playing here as much as he would. Books by Franz Kafka
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