Publisher's Synopsis
Like most of Kafka's works, The Metamorphosis also awakens the inclination of many connoisseurs to a religious (Max Brod) or psychological interpretation. It is particularly common to interpret The Metamorphosis as an expression of Kafka's paternal complex, as was first suggested by Charles Neider in his The Frozen Sea: A Study of Franz Kafka (1948). In addition to the psychological approach, interpretations focused on sociological aspects that see the Samsa family as a portrait of general social conditions, have also gained a large following.
