English French Audiobook | La Metamorphose - The Metamorphosis

The bilingual audiobook is 4h45mn long and meant for high intermediate and advanced students.
The sentence-by-sentence recording puts it within the reach of a dedicated intermediate.
The novella by Franz Kafka, is a masterpiece in the literary world, that is to say, the reader is affected by her reading and undergoes a change in the way she looks at the world.

The first sentence of The Metamorphosis reads: "One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstruous, verminous bug."
Such a metamorphosis is bound to provoke changes in the other members of the family. Is a vermin a member of the family?

We use insect sprays, electric traps, newspapers, or one of our slippers. We have tents huge enough to contain whole houses in order to smoke out their inhabitants.
Planes fitted with special devices fly over the fields to spray them with insecticides.
Gardeners will rescue their roses at any price, tree growers their orchards.
Schools are at war against head lice, restaurants against cockroach, kennels against fleas.
To summarize, human beings do not care about insects.
Many people are afraid of spiders, other of wasps, and many are afraid of both.

Given our usual way of dealing with insects, "Gregor" should have been chased and killed at once. Do you imagine your reaction in front of some 80 cm high cockroach (it can turn a key with its mouth when it stands upright) moving towards you? The truth is that anyone would call the rescue team.
But when you read Franz Kafka's short novel, you side with Gregor. You think "he," not "it." You think that his family is not kind enough, that he should be allowed to dine at the family table, that his sister should play the violin for him, etc.
In short, you are someone else. The Metamorphosis has changed you.

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