Metamorphosis
- Author Franz Kafka
- Narrator Martin Jarvis
- Publisher Naxos AudioBooks
- Run Time 2 hours and 12 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction.
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Critics Review
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‘Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze,’ wrote Kafka, perhaps presaging his most famous tale, in which a workaday travelling salesman wakes one day to find he is now a huge dung beetle. Kafka expertly portrays the vagaries of the human heart – all of its sad glory and tinny selfishness – in a recording that the gifted Martin Jarvis elevates to an audio classic, employing his storytelling skills and knowing inflections in a lively and charming narration occasionally punctuated by scratchy, whimsical violins. Jarvis has firmly established himself as a source of finely nuanced theatre of the mind. This unforgettable audio movie is vivid and disturbing, shot through with black humour.
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