World’s Best Short Stories: Metamorphosis

Few people who have read the opening line of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis will ever forget it. Translations from the original German vary but the one I remember best is: “Gregor Samsa woke one morning after troubled dreams to find he had been transformed into a giant beetle.” Thus begins one of modern literature’s most horrifying, amusing and striking short stories.

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World’s Best Short Stories: Modernism

Modernism in literature was a response to the incidence of modernism as a phenomenon in the physical world. Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century or early part of the twentieth century, depending on the country concerned, modernism reflected the changing relationship between people and their work and what was previously considered to be ‘natural.’

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