Translations of Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis and images by Finnish conceptual artist Anu Tuominen, selected and arranged by Sarah J. Sloat

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Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
 

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. (David Wyllie)

As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. (Joyce Crick)
 

One morning Gregor Samsa woke in his bed from uneasy dreams and found he had turned into a huge verminous insect. (Wordsworth editions)

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. (Michael Hofmann)

When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. (Stanley Corngold)
 

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from restless dreams, he found that he had been transformed in his bed into monstrous vermin. (Charles Daudert)

When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect. (Susan Bernofsky)
 

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. (Ian Johnston)

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect. (Malcolm Pasley)
 

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed. (Thomas King)

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning out of restless dreams, he found himself in bed, transformed into a gargantuan pest. (M.A. Roberts)

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (Willa and Edwin Muir)
 

When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found that he had been transformed — in his bed — into a kind of giant bug. (Arcturus Publishing Ltd., London)

One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin. (Joachim Neugroschel)