Night has fallen on Prague's St Nicholas Street. At long last, silence reigns in the home: father, mother and sisters have gone to bed. Only Franz is sitting wide awake behind his desk. Working rapidly, he begins to write down a disturbing story. Its first sentence opens a masterpiece that would go on to captivate millions of readers: "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect."
Alongside the original text from 1915, this book also includes a sequel to the "bug story". Its author, the young expressionist writer Karl Brand, was part of Kafka's literary circle and knew him personally. A richly illustrated afterword on the writing of the story rounds off this Prague Edition of The Metamorphosis and makes it an editorial masterwork - a must for serious Kafka fans and for anyone who wants to discover the Prague writer for themselves.