The Metamorphosis
1915 · Complete work

The Metamorphosis

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“One morning, a devoted traveling salesman awakens transformed into a monstrous vermin, unraveling his family's fragile domestic order.”

When traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from uneasy dreams, he finds himself inexplicably transformed into a giant, repulsive insect. Desperate to keep his demanding job and support his dependent parents and sister, Gregor soon discovers that his new body renders him entirely helpless. Confined to his bedroom, he must navigate not only his unsettling physical state, but also the escalating horror, disgust, and resentment of the very family he sacrificed everything to sustain. Kafka’s iconic masterpiece is a haunting, darkly comic meditation on estrangement, familial obligation, and the brutal cost of human expendability.

9 Episodes · Classic
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All Episodes (9)

Episode 01
~12 min

Chapter I · I

“His room, a proper human room, though a little too small, lay quietly between its four familiar walls.”

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Episode 02
~13 min

Chapter I · II

““I’ll be right out,” Gregor said slowly and deliberately, not moving, so as not to lose a single word of the conversation.”

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Episode 03
~6 min

Chapter I · III

““Mother, mother,” said Gregor softly, looking up at her.”

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Episode 04
~13 min

Chapter II · I

“Well, perhaps this reading aloud, of which his sister always spoke and wrote to him, had fallen out of practice altogether of late.”

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Episode 05
~13 min

Chapter II · II

““Come along, you can’t see him,” said the sister, evidently leading the mother by the hand.”

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Episode 06
~8 min

Chapter II · III

““What has happened?” were his first words; Grete’s appearance had evidently told him everything.”

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Episode 07
~12 min

Chapter III · I

“Since then, she never failed to open the door a crack, morning and evening, and peer in at Gregor.”

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Episode 08
~12 min

Chapter III · II

““Oh, please!” called the father, as though he were the violinist.”

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Episode 09
~8 min

Chapter III · III

““I should say so,” said the charwoman, and to prove it she shoved Gregor’s corpse a good distance sideways with the broom.”

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Public-domain work (1915). Text: Project Gutenberg #22367. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more