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  • Metamorphosis, The
    Metamorphosis, The
    noun
    a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.
  • “The Metamorphosis”
    “The Metamorphosis”
    (1916) A story by Franz Kafka. It is a tale of psychological terror, in which a salesman named Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect.

Metamorphosis, The

American  

noun

  1. a short story (1915) by Franz Kafka.


“The Metamorphosis” Cultural  
  1. (1916) A story by Franz Kafka. It is a tale of psychological terror, in which a salesman named Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect.


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Novels such as The Trial and The Castle, stories such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Hunger Artist" and "The Burrow" are the Grimm's fairy tales of the modern cloven spirit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Metamorphosis The multitude of monsters melts away; the land changes into an Ocean; the creatures of the briny abysses appear.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

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