Smart Reads: The Metamorphosis
@ Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Online
Opening Wednesday, October 25th, from 6PM - 7PM
Virtual gathering
Join in the Smart Museum of Art’s virtual book club!
The Smart Reads series continues in September with The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. We invite you to read along with us and engage in a thought-provoking conversation with host Dorian H. Nash.
FREE. To help build a community of participants, capacity is limited and advanced registration is required.
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https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pceygrDkuG9f11D22g7JF5Hi1HdaCbdSd#/registration
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
‘When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.’ With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike 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.
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