Ever wanted to call something Kafka-esque? Now's your chance! Just listen to this short 2 hour audiobook, arrange a dinner with friends, sip some pinot grigio and subtley drop that you've just consumed a book. Then add "It's very Kafka-esque". If anyone argues about how Kafka-esque it is just scream in their face "IT'S WRITTEN BY KAFKA, YOU IGNORAMUS!". Everyone will respect the hell out of you. It'll be great.
This deal expires midday WA time on Monday the 11th (tomorrow at time of posting).
** Publisher's Summary**
“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.”
With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.
A harrowing - though absurdly comic - meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of 20th-century fiction. As W. H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”
FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924), one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century, was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. His unique body of writing, much of which is incomplete and was mainly published posthumously, is considered by some people to be among the most influential in Western literature, inspiring such writers as Albert Camus, Rex Warner, and Samuel Beckett.
Good find Tantryl. Nice to see someone from the old days of At0mic forums around here :)