Centennial Book Discussion: The Metamorphosis In-Person
The Centennial Book Discussion Group meets the last Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. Each month, from January 2024 until January 2025, we will be reading a classic work from a different decade. Registration is not required.
1910s: The Metamorphosis (1915), by Franz Kafka
With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Conference Room
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion Library Centennial Event