"The Metamorphosis" "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." "What has happened to me?" "What if I went back to sleep and forgot all this nonsense?" "It wasn't a dream" "There, quietly between the four familiar walls, was his room." "Over the table, on which an array of cloth samples was spread out," " Samsa was a travelling salesman - hung the picture he had recently clipped from a magazine and set in an attractive gilt frame." "Oh God, what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen!" "On the road, day in, day out." "This getting up early makes one quite stupid." "It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards" "One could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock." "Certainly it must have rung out." "Heavenly Father, my train..." "Gregor, it is quarter to seven." "Didn't you want to go somewhere?" "Gregor, aren't you well?" "Do you need anything?" "Gregor, what's the matter?" "Thank you mother, I'm getting up now." "I'm ready, now." "Open up, I beg of you." "One mustn't loaf around in bed." "Someone from work is here!" "The chief clerk is here" "I know!" "The chief clerk has come and wants to know why you didn't leave on the early train." "We don't know what to say to him." "Besides, he wants to talk to you in person." "So please open the door!" "He will be good enough to forgive the untidiness of the room." "Something's fallen down in there" "Good morning, Mr. Samsa" "He's not well." "He isn't well, please believe me." "Why else would Gregor miss a train?" "The boy thinks about nothing but the work." "He never goes out at night, on the contrary" "He sits at the table with us," "Reading the newspaper or studies the timetables." "His idea of relaxation is working with his fretsaw." "He spent two evenings cutting out a little picture frame" "It's hanging in his room" "You will be amazed how pretty it is." "You will see it presently!" "When Gregor opens up" "By the way, I am delighted that you have come." "We alone would have never been able to get him to open the door." "He must be unwell." "I am just coming." "I have no other explanation, dear madam" "I hope it's nothing serious." "But on the other hand, I must say that we people in commerce are quite often simply forced to overcome a slight indisposition." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you now then?" "No" "Mr. Samsa" "What is the matter?" "You barricade yourself in your room, respond only with "Yes" and "No"" "Causing serious and unnecessary concern to your parents and neglect your professional duties" "In, as it were, a monstrous manner!" "Certainly, your position is not the most secure" "And your performance has been dissatisfactory of late" "It may not be the season for extraordinary business but" "a season of doing no business at all definitely does not exist." "Must not exist" "Mr. Chief Clerk, I shall open immediately" "A slight indisposition, an attack of dizziness prevented my getting up" "I'm in bed again and I've calmed down now." "I am getting out of bed" "Just give me a moment, spare my parents" "All the accusations you make have no basis" "Perhaps you have not read the latest commissions I sent in" "I will depart on the eight o'clock train" "These few hours of rest have given me strength" "Kindly be so good to send my regards to the director" "Did you understand a word of that?" "You don't suppose he's pulling our legs, do you?" "Oh God!" "He could be seriously ill and we're tormenting him" "Grete" "Mother?" "You'll have to go for the doctor immediately" "Did you hear Gregor just now?" "To send my regards to the director!" "The voice of an animal" "Anna!" "Get a locksmith at once!" "Listen" "He's turning the key" "My dear" "You, you" "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my samples and set off." "Will you only let me go?" "Sir, you see" "I am not stubborn and I enjoy working" "Travelling is wearisome but I could not live without it" "Where are you going now, sir?" "To the office, I suppose." "Will you report everything truthfully?" "One can be temporarily unable to work but that is just the right moment to remember past accomplishments and to consider that, later, once the difficulty has been removed he will work with all the more diligence and concentration" "I am under a great obligation to the director, you know that very well" "On the other hand, I have responsibilities for my parents and my sister." "I am in a jam but I will work my way out of it." "Only don't make it any harder for me than it is already!" "Give me your backing at the office." "The traveller is not popular there, I know." "It's thought that he earns sacks of money and just has a good time." "There is no particular cause to review this prejudice, but you, sir" "You have a better overview of affairs than the rest of the staff" "Even, in confidence, than the director himself" "Who, as an entrepeneur, too easily errs unfavourably against the employee" "And you also know that the traveller who is away from the office almost the whole year" "May all too easily fall victim to gossip and to chance and to baseless complaints" "Against which he has no way of defending himself since he mostly knows nothing about them" "And when he returns exhausted from his travels" "And only then suffers in person from their evil consequences which he can no longer trace back to their original causes." "Chief Clerk, do not leave without showing me by a word or two that you at least partly agree with me!" "Mother" "You want to guzzle my coffee?" "Go away, go away, you beast!" "Gregor, come" "Did you enjoy it?" "Did he, did he eat anything?" "Look what you've done" "I'll never get that out of these trousers again" "Is there hot water?" "What am I going to wear?" "I wanted to go out" "Heat up some hot water, will you" "Yesterday he left it all untouched" "But today he enjoyed his meal" "Already in the course of that first day his father set out the family's financial situation and prospects to his mother and sister." "Now and then he rose from the table and produced from his till which he had rescued from the collapse of his business five years earlier some certificate or some savings book." "It had even happened that various family jewels which the mother and sister used to wear exuberantly at functions and celebrations had been sold." "Gregor was now informed comprehensively, since his father repeated his explanations several times that in spite of all misfortune an admittedly miniscule capital remained which, in the meantime, had increased a little because the dividends had not been touched." "Behind his door," "Gregor nodded eagerly rejoiced at this unexpected foresight and thrift." "What's he doing now?" "Would you like me to get you a beer?" "I don't mind fetching it" "Or I could ask the janitor's wife" "Please let me see Gregor" "He is my misfortunate son, after all" "Can you not understand that I must be with him?" "No" "Come in, Mother." "He's nowhere to be seen." "And won't it seem that by removing the furniture we indicate our giving up any hope of a recovery and that we're ruthlessly abandoning him" "No" "Go away" "Hello, what..." "What has happened?" "Mother fainted" "But she's better now" "Gregor escaped" "As I'd expected" "I've been telling you, but you women don't want to listen." "No, stop that" "Stop it" "Gregor's severe injury from which he suffered for over a month" " since nobody dared to remove it, the apple remained lodged in Gregor's flesh as a visible reminder - apparently had reminded even the father that Gregor despite his current sad and revolting form was a member of the family" "who could not be treated like an enemy." "Rather, the obligations of family dictated to swallow one's revulsion and to endure, just to endure." "And even if Gregor had probably permanently lost his mobility because of his wound" "He gained for the deterioration of his condition in his opinion, a completely sufficient compensation, in the fact that now every evening the living room door was opened." "How long you've been sewing again today" "Rendez-vous" "avec vous" "Grete, come here" "Come" "What a life" "This is what peace I get in my old age!" "No, no" "Rendez-vous" "No, let go" "Go now" "Grete, close the door" "Away, away!" "But even when the sister had become weary of caring for Gregor as before this did not mean that the mother would have to replace her" "And there would not have been any reason to neglect Gregor" "Because now the maid was around" "What is this?" "!" "Come here, for God's sake" "Yes?" "Who did this?" "Why?" "I cleaned up earlier" " Why did you clean the room?" " You're supposed to stay in your room, this is her work!" " How can you say this!" "I've always said this is her work" "Stop that now" "Stop your coughing" "Calm down" "Don't choke" "I can no longer stand this" "Look at the old dung-beetle!" "Come here you dung-beetle" "Can't go any further?" "It had now become customary to place into this room such items that could not be accommodated elsewhere." "And there were now many such items because one of the apartment's rooms had been let of late to three gentlement" "These earnest men were painfully insistent on tidiness." "Unnecessary or dirty clutter would not be brooked." "Many items had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard." "I do feel hungry, but not for these things" "How these gentlemen feast while I perish" "Is the music disagreeable to the gentlemen?" "It can be halted at once" "On the contrary would the young lady not like to come in and play here in the room where it is, after all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes" "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?" "It seemed to him he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for." "He was determined to make his way forward to his sister and thereby to indicate to her that he'd had the serious intention to send her to the conservatory." "Mr. Samsa" "Away with you!" "Please, gentlemen, withdraw to your room" "Please" "Take care of him!" "I declare here and now that with regard to the repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat" "I give immediate notice on my room." "For the days that I have been living here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary!" "I will have to consider thoroughly whether to sue for damages and it would be very easy to set out the grounds for such an action." "I am giving notice, too!" "I am giving notice, too" "This is intolerable, we will not submit to this" "Dear parents, this cannot continue!" "Maybe you can't see it, but I do" "This beast does not deserve my brother's name" "This is why I say" "We have to try to get rid off it." "We have tried everything humanly possible to tolerate it and to care for it" "I believe we are beyond reproach" "She is quite right" "We have to try to get rid off it" "It is going to be the death of the both of you" "I can see it coming." "We can't all work as hard as we have to and at home endure this endless torture" "We simply have to get rid off it." "I can no longer stand it either!" "But child, what can we do?" "If only he understood us" "It has to go, that's the only way, father!" "You only have to abandon your belief that it is Gregor" "If it was Gregor he would have understood already that one cannot live together with such an animal and he would have left voluntarily" "And he would not torment us incessantly" "We'd no longer have a brother but we could continue living" "And honour his memory" "As it is this animal pursues us drives out the gentlemen" "And apparently seeks to occupy the entire apartment" "While we have to sleep in the streets" "See father, there it goes again" "But Gregor had never intended in the least to inspire fear in anyone certainly not in his sister" "He had simply begun to turn around in order to return to his room" "This was rather conspicuous since, due to his suffering, he had to employ his head during the difficult about turns" "Although he felt pain throughout his body he felt as if it was gradually weakening" "And would dissipate entirely, at last" "He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the inflamed area around it." "He thought back of his family with emotion and love." "His view concerning his necessary disappearance was possibly even more determined than his sister's." "He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination until the clock tower struck three in the morning." "Then, without his willing it, his head sank down completely," "And his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils" "Now look, it's dead just lying there, totally dead." "Dead?" "I'll say" "Now then, let's give thanks to God" "Look how thin he was" "He has not eaten in two days" "Grete, come in our room for a while" "Come here you dung-beetle" "Where's our breakfast?" "Leave my apartment at once!" "What is the meaning of this?" "Exactly how I said it!" "Well in that case, we are leaving" "I'm going" "Now?" "What do you want?" "Well, concerning the disposal of the stuff in the other room you needn't have any concerns" "It is taken care of" "Cheerio then" "Tonight she will be sacked" "Let's forget about all that old stuff." "Come and give me a bit of attention" "They decided to make use of the remainder of the day for resting and for a promenade" "They sat down at the table and wrote three letters of apology." "Mr. Samsa to his directorate," "Mrs. Samsa to her employer and Grete to her principal." "Then they left the apartment together something they had not done for months they discussed their future prospects" "They now wanted to rent a smaller and less expensive but better situated and altogether more practical apartment than the current one which had been chosen by Gregor." "While they conversed" "Mr. and Mrs. Samsa noticed, while their daughter was becoming livlier, how she" " in spite of all the recent worries that had turned her cheeks pale - was blossoming into a beautiful and voluptuous girl." "They considered that it would soon be time to find a good husband for her." "And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions as soon as they reached their destination their daughter was the first to rise and stretch out her young body." "Subtitles by stefflbw (2010)"