Cliffs Notes on Kafka's The Metamorphosis & Other Stories

Cliffs Notes on Kafka's The Metamorphosis & Other Stories

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The stories of this turn-of-the-century writer concern the disillusionment of modern man. To Kafka and to the people in his stories, life is often absurd and meaningless, with only a faint ray of fleeting hope.<p>This concise supplement to Kafka's <i>The Metamorphosis</i> and other stories helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.<p>This volume also covers <i>The Judgment, A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony, The Hunter Gracchus, The Burrow, Investigations of a Dog, A Report to an Academy, The Great Wall of China,</i> and <i>Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk</i>.