Absolutely horrific. Adaptation made me want to read the original work. Ending felt abrupt and random though.

Weird shit man.

Novela gráfica que explica muy bien la historia

Kuper's dark shading and expressionistic tone work well for an adaptation of this bizarre tale. I especially liked the subtle echo of Charlie Brown in Gregor Samsa's belly pattern--an idea R. Sikoryak also played on in his own Peanuts version of "The Metamorphosis." Even the use of different typefaces rather than hand lettering (except for some of Gregor's speech balloons) is effective in this tale of cold and selfish people. The lodgers all being physically identical and speaking in unison is another nice touch. Anyway, overall, lots of great visual choices here; this is a genuine adaptation, not just an illustrated version of the story.

You’re laughing. A man woke from troubled dreams as a monstrous vermin and you’re laughing.

A man wakes up one day to find he has been changed into a large insect. The story follows his efforts to deal with this, and his family's reaction to the change. But it's not just a story about a man turning into a insect, it's a clever way of writing about how a family would deal with the main breadwinner in the house becoming unable to work, the way a family reacts to someone who is disabled. It could also be an analogy for how a family treats a member of the family who is now old and needs to be cared for. The man who is now a insect, is forced to live in his room, shut away from the world, for fear that he will frighten anyone who enters the house. The man who once provided for the family, and thought of them above himself, has now become a burden on them, as they are now short of money, and have to find employment. The once able and hard-working man, transformed into a insect, is now rejected, and his family blame him for their financial situation and the fact that they cannot move to a smaller house, because they need to have a room to keep him in. The descriptive quality of the writing is excellent, and although it is a sad and gruesome tale, it is also very funny in parts; I couldn't help laughing out loud a couple of times.

When I found this graphic novel at the library I thought it would be the perfect way to explore this strange text I’d always been interested in reading, but never prioritized. This confirmed that I will never read the full text.

Srhljivo, žalostno. Kafka v pravem pomenu besede.

Prvič sem brala stripovsko priredbo klasike in moram reči, da je navdušila s prikazom bistvenega, pritegnilo pa me je tudi branje z obračanjem knjige (besedilo je ponekod napisano obrnjeno na glavo).

One of the amazing read of this year ! Defiantly want to suggest everyone to read this book.

great visual representation of kafka’s weird and wacky novella…could’ve done without seeing a roach with a human face though, personally speaking.

This is a great interpretation and adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis. The humor and the horror are duking it out in that great spy vs spy way (thank you Peter Kuper) , and sentimentality is beautifully burlesqued and still there is a shifty (shifting) emotional resonance in there.

I love how reading this comic metamorphosis brings out parts of the prose I would not have weighted and makes me want to read the prose again and see what feels new.

One of my favorite tales about literary folk is the one where Kafka is reading the Metamorphosis aloud to Max Brod and laughing so hard he is doubled over and can barely finish. Thank you Kafka, for the pleasure you take in turning a poor, unsuspecting salesman into a desperate cockroach, and for your particular contribution in raising the sick and miserable absurdity of life to a comic art form. And thank you Kuper for reminding me that "high brow" and "low brow" are often wonderfully inscrutable twins when it comes to the greatest of stories, regardless of the form.

"E se dormissi ancora un po' e dimenticassi tutte queste sciocchezze?"