Books like The Metamorphosis
A man wakes up as a giant insect and his family's initial horror gives way to resentment, neglect, and the everyday cruelty of people who stop seeing you as human.
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The Trial
A man is arrested, tried, and condemned by a court whose charges are never explained, in a parable about bureaucracy, guilt, and the absurdity of power.
The Castle
A land surveyor arrives at a village to work at the castle above it, but the castle's bureaucracy ensures he can never reach the people who summoned him.
Waiting for Godot
Two tramps wait by a country road for a Godot who does not come, in a play that decided what modern theatre would even be for.
The Pigeon
Jonathan Noel, a Parisian bank guard who has lived by strict routine for decades, finds a pigeon in the corridor outside his room, and his ordered existence begins to collapse.
The Woman in the Dunes
A man trapped by a sandstorm in a coastal village is forced to live with a woman at the bottom of a sand pit, shoveling endlessly to keep them both alive.
Journey to the East
H. H., a musician, recalls his part in a secret League's pilgrimage to the East, a journey across time and imagination that fell apart when the humble servant Leo vanished.
Steppenwolf
A middle-aged intellectual in Weimar Germany is torn between bourgeois respectability and the wildness inside him, guided by a mysterious figure through the theatres of his psyche.
The Tartar Steppe
A young Italian officer is posted to a remote fortress on the edge of a desert where the enemy has been expected for a century, and he learns how to wait.
Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.
Happy Days
A play: Winnie, buried to her waist in a mound of scorched earth, chatters cheerfully through her day with her toothbrush and handbag while her husband Willie crawls about behind.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
The Stranger
A man in French Algeria kills an Arab on a beach for no particular reason and is condemned less for the murder than for his failure to cry at his mother's funeral.