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Albert Camus · Modern · Novel
Modernism · Novella
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka. Gregor Samsa awakens transformed into an insect, exposing conditional love, shame, labor, and social estrangement.
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- Date
- 1915
- Origin
- Austria-Hungary / Prague
- Era
- Modernism
- Genre
- Novella
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Short
- Collection
- The Western Canon
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Gregor Samsa awakens transformed into an insect, exposing conditional love, shame, labor, and social estrangement.
This work is included on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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