The metamorphosis, by Kafka

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning after restless dreams: he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect. He was lying on his hard armored back and when he raised his head slightly he saw his curved brown belly protruding into stiff curved lobes and the rumpled bed cover at the peak of the belly almost slipping entirely. And his multiple thin legs were miserably compared to the size of his body, trembling helplessly before his eyes. It is a short story written by the German novelist Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is one of the most famous works of the twentieth century and the most influential, studied in many universities and colleges around the Western world. The Bulgarian writer Elias Kaneti described it as “one of the few wonderful works, and one of the best works of imagination written in this century.” Number of pages: 90