Stuck on his back and unable to get up and leave the bed, Gregor reflects on his job as a traveling salesman and cloth merchant, which he characterizes as being full of "temporary and constantly changing human relationships, which never come from the heart". He initially considers the transformation to be temporary and slowly ponders the consequences of this metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt Wolff. The text was first published in 1915 in the October issue of the journal Die weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. With a length of about 70 printed pages over three chapters, it is the longest of the stories Kafka considered complete and published during his lifetime. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered. " monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. Metamorphosis ( German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.
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