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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the enduring classic of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. He attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible creature he has become. First published in 1915, Kafka's darkly comic novella explores concepts such as the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between mind and body.

Josef K. is an ordinary man who is arrested on his 30th birthday. He is prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, yet the nature of his crime is never revealed to him. One year after his arrest he is executed. His last words describe his own death: "Like a dog!"

"The Metamorphosis", first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister. One morning he awakes to discover that during the night he has been transformed into a horrible bug. Although somewhat of a horror genre, the story is often very funny as Gregor, his family, and those around him deal with their own transformations as a result of this odd predicament.

The classic transformation story by Kafka. A man is transformed into a bug and how everyone deals with the situation from his mother and father, to his employer and paying boarders, and himself. 

Kafkas Genre prägende Erzählung ist ein Klassiker der Schullektüre und fasziniert durch seinen kristallklaren und gleichzeitig rätselhaften Stil. Der fiktionale Tatsachenbericht entzieht sich dabei jeder Eindeutigkeit, und lässt Spielraum für Interpretationen. Mit nüchternem Gedanken und dennoch empathisch, spricht Tina Haseney diesen 1912 entstandenen Text. Der Zeitlosigkeit Kafkas Werk als Meister im präzisen Vermessen von Innen- und Außenwelten kann man sich so kaum noch entziehen.

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life - including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door - becomes increasingly unpredictable.

A meets B at H and comes home pleased with the events.

The story offers two versions of a scene in which a young man watches a circus ring master and a woman on a horseback.

A boat carrying long dead hunter Grachhus arrives at a port.

Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis.

This story is a description of the view from the window.

I was stiff and cold, I was a bridge, I lay over a ravine.

Georg's father accuses him of deceiving him about the happenings of the business.

He is a poor man and hopes that the coal-dealer will be generous enough to lend him some coal.

When night falls, and the Arabs are at a distance, the traveler is accosted by talking jackals.

A firm has hired a new associate, Bucephalos.

Often when I see clothes with manifold pleats, frills, and appendages which fit so smoothly onto lovely bodies I think they won't keep that smoothness long.

Large group of nomads fill the town square.

This is a story about an animal that is half kitten and half lamb, with distinctive attributes of his own.

When you go walking by night up a street and a man, visible a long way off - for the street mounts uphill and there is a full moon - comes running toward you, well, you don't catch hold of him, but you let him run on.