<b>Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Stanley Corngold</b><br> <b>Featuring essays by Philip Roth, W. H Auden, and Walter Benjamin</b><br><br>“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, <i>The Metamorphosis.</i> It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially aliena