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Gabriel Garcia Marquez recommended The Metamorphosis in Books (curated)

 
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Susan Bernofsky, Franz Kafka, Mark M. Anderson | 2015 | Essays
7.0 (4 Ratings)
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"I never again slept with my former serenity. [The book] determined a new direction for my life from its first line, which today is one of the great devices in world literature: “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” [I realized that] it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for it to be true, with no proof other than the power of his talent and the authority of his voice. It was Scheherazade all over again, not in her millenary world where everything was possible but in another irreparable world where everything had already been lost. When I finished reading The Metamorphosis I felt an irresistible longing to live in that alien paradise"

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