{"product_id":"the-metamorphosis-1","title":"The Metamorphosis","description":"\"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.\" With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, \"The Metamorphosis.\" It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike 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 inadequecy, guilt, and isolation, \"The Metamorphosis\" has taken its place as one of the mosst 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.\"","brand":"Schocken Books Inc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317756260568,"sku":"9780805210576","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_07599611-c21d-489a-81ca-0bd791fdba01.jpg?v=1787949858","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/the-metamorphosis-1","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}