This work ends with one character standing and stretching after taking an electric train ride into the countryside with her family. Characters in this work include a cleaning woman who constantly bangs doors and a trio of lodgers who attempt to leave without paying rent. In the original language, its first sentence uses a word referring only to something "unclean" and "unfit for sacrifice". Its protagonist fights to preserve a gilt-framed picture of a woman in furs, is injured when his (*) father hits him in the back with an apple, and is forced to hide under a sofa while Grete cleans his room
This work ends with one character standing and stretching after taking an electric train ride into the countryside with her family. Characters in this work include a cleaning woman who constantly bangs doors and a trio of lodgers who attempt to leave without paying rent. In the original language, its first sentence uses a word referring only to something "unclean" and "unfit for sacrifice". Its protagonist fights to preserve a gilt-framed picture of a woman in furs, is injured when his (*) father hits him in the back with an apple, and is forced to hide under a sofa while Grete cleans his room. It opens with a traveling salesman waking from a "night of uneasy dreams". For 10 points, name this Franz Kafka work in which Gregor Samsa transforms into an insect.
This work ends with one character standing and stretching after taking an electric train ride into the countryside with her family.
The Metamorphosis [or Die Verwandlung; accept The Transformation until "transforms" is read]