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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
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96This text is a translation from the Germanby Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College Nanaimo, BC. It has beenprepared for students in the Liberal Studiesand English departments. This document isin the public domain, released, January1999
 
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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up fromanxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had beenchanged into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on hisarmour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little,his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just aboutready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place.His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the restof his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream.His room, a proper room for a human being, onlysomewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpackedcollection of sample cloth goods was spread out (Samsawas a traveling salesman) hung the picture which he hadcut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and setin a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with afur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in thedirection of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm disappeared.Gregor’s glance then turned to the window. The drearyweather (the rain drops were falling audibly down on the
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