卡夫卡《变形记》
  《变形记》（德语：Die Verwandlung）是二十世纪一部中篇小说，奥地利作家卡夫卡的代表作，发表於1915年。
1998年，英国BBC广播电台作了一个系列节目，回顾20世纪的艺术经典，介绍100部20世纪最有影响的艺术作品，第一集就是关于卡夫卡的《变形记》。变形似乎一直是人类的一种理想，也是文学、影视作品中的经典题材，变形似乎是童话的专利。
卡夫卡的《变形记》却是极为独特的，格里高尔也变形了，但他似乎变得并不轻松，让我们读起来也并不觉得兴奋，卡夫卡究竟想要告诉我们什么？
卡夫卡最初只是一个默默无闻，不被人理解的业余作家，但今天被称为现代派文学的大师，与但丁、莎士比亚、歌德相提并论，甚至他的名字已经进入了语言，成为一个词汇，kafkaesque，它的意思是卡夫卡式的，受压抑和噩梦般的。可见卡夫卡对世界文化影响的深远。但即使在今天，对卡夫卡仍然是众说纷纭，人们在他身上涂上了各种色彩。
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up from a bad dream and realized he was some kind of terrible insect. He was a cockroach, and he was as large as a man! Lying on his back, he could see his large brown belly and thin legs. He tried to turn over onto his side, but every time he tried, he would roll onto his back again. He began to think about his job as a traveling salesman. He hated his job, but he had to do it to support his father, mother, and sister because his father no longer worked. He looked at the clock and realized he had overslept – it was 6:30! He was late. The next train left at 7:00. He would have to hurry to make it. A few minutes later his mother yelled to him: "It's 6:45. You're late. Get up!" When he answered her, he was surprised to hear his voice; it sounded so high. "Yes, mother. I'm getting up now." His sister now whispered through the door, "Gregor, are you all right? Do you need anything?"
Well, it was time to get up. Surely, as soon as he got out of bed, he would realize this had all been a bad dream. He tried to move his back part first, but it moved so slowly, and he had a hard time. His thin little legs seemed useless, just moving and moving in the air, not helping him at all. Then he tried the front part. This worked better, but he still couldn't move enough to get out of bed. He began rocking back and forth, stronger and more intensely, and finally threw himself onto the floor, hitting his head as he fell.
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