One morning, waking from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found that he had changed in his bed into an enormous verminous creature.
Franz Kafka
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A quote by Franz Kafka
From the source
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), Part I, opening sentence.
German text: Die Verwandlung, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1917 edition. First published in 1915.
The opening of the novella introduces Gregor’s transformation.
Original German
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.