Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line-the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the change. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. In this collection of new critical essays, one of the enduring classics of twentieth-century world literature is once again examined in all its complexity and resonance.