![]() ![]() The novel is clearly highly autobiographical in its content. The writing process on this novel was laborious, taking three weeks in November and December, and the final product turned out to be the longest work Kafka ever completed in his life. ![]() Finally, The Metamorphosis appeared in print in 1915, after Kafka asked a publisher to put it out in a very unusual display of concern for publication. A year later he sent the book to a friend who was prevented from publishing it by his conservative editors. In 1913 he turned down an offer to publish the story, possibly because he was saving it for a book he was planning called Sons. It was one of fairly few works Kafka was to publish in his lifetime. Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis in 1912, the year he felt his creativity finally taking a definite form. ![]()
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