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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous storyline of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. Champion of AudioFile Earphones Prize © AudioFile After a nights stressed dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to learn that he has developed into huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an armour-plated back and multiple limbs. Gradually, he comes to terms with his new condition - but his parents and sister are horrified and significantly revolted. To them, Gregor is unclean, verminous and entirely repellent, and since he becomes increasingly more of the burden, their horror becomes to an awful indifference.... First released in 1915, Kafka's surreal existential novella explores concepts like the absurdity of life, alienation and the disconnect between body and mind. Read by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Trek, The Imitation Game), this tale - often referred to as one of the biggest in the annals of fiction - is chilling, fascinating and darkly comic.