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1946 · 28534 — 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." Vanguard, unknown