"“One morning, When Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”
The above line pretty much sums up the entire plot of this existential masterpiece. Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman wakes up one day and finds himself metamorphosed into a bug. Samsa fights to get his humanity back. But Kafka’s web traps a reader’s attention with his exploration of existence, focus on cruelty of authoritarian power and the simplicity of his narration."
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Jewish novelist and short story writer considered to be one of the major figures of literature in the 20th century. His unique style of writing encompassed diverse emotions such as anxiety, guilt, feelings of alienation and existential crisis which many people faced during that particular time period. Most of his works, said to be influential Western literature, were published posthumously and have inspired many critics, artists, writers, scholars, etc. He wrote many stories such as The Metamorphosis (1912), In the Penal Colony (1914) and novels such as The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).