This Man Turned Into a Bug - And It’s Perfectly Normal

The Metamorphosis is a book written by Franz Kafka and published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century as well as a classic absurdist fiction book. It starts off with one of the most iconic opening lines in literature: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis embodies an absurdist tone with ordinary daily concerns (such as being late for work) even after Gregor Samsa's extraordinary transformation into a monstrous vermin. It is an allegory of modern society's alienation and angst. The story mostly takes place in a single confined room. The cause of Gregor’s transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. ⭐ Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📨 Subscribe with email https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe 🎦 Subscribe to the official clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3O94sXcoZLpoHRzxH_YcTA 📺 YouTube Member Perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 🛒 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com 📚 My Personal Library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 The Book ▶ The Metamorphosis (1915) https://amzn.to/3xADHpu 📚 Other Recommended Reading (High Quality and Best Translations) ▶ The Trial (1925) https://amzn.to/3gO3QLJ ▶ The Castle (1926) https://amzn.to/3aPepu3 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:44 Part I 3:38 Part II 6:33 Part III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Metamorphosis (2015) - Wisehouse Classics Edition - Sparknotes https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/metamorph/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used (by Kevin MacLeod) 1. Anguish 2. Anxiety 3. Mesmerize 4. Virtutes Instrumenti 5. Blue Feather Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it! #metamorphosis #kafka Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices