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FOLKTELLSTEAPreparing your literature…
Gregor Samsa wakes transformed, and an impossible event exposes the fragile structures of family, work, obligation and belonging.
First published in Die weißen Blätter in 1915 and later issued as a book by Kurt Wolff Verlag.
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Kafka gives no rational cause for Gregor’s transformation. The unexplained event instead becomes a lens for shame, labor, isolation and conditional love.