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Metamorphosis

  • Imprint: BBC Physical Audio

  • ISBN: 9781785299933

  • Length: 98  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 125mm x 8mm x 145mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £13.25

Metamorphosis

  • A BBC Radio 4 reading

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka’s famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2018

After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs.

Gradually, he comes to terms with his new state – but his parents and sister are horrified and increasingly revolted. To them, Gregor is unclean, verminous and entirely repellent, and as he becomes more and more of a burden, their horror turns to a terrible indifference...

First published in 1915, Kafka’s surreal existential novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body. Read by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek, The Imitation Game), this tale – often described as one of the greatest in the history of fiction – is chilling, captivating and darkly comic.

Duration: 1 hr 40 mins approx.

  • Imprint: BBC Physical Audio

  • ISBN: 9781785299933

  • Length: 98  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 125mm x 8mm x 145mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £13.25

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; The Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle.

Franz Kafka

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