This is a case of Master Labrador, Ralph, 12 years old, who was admitted last May 2, 2008 at Cebu Doctorsâ University Hospital to undergo a cranioplasty. Two years ago the patient sustained an epidural hematoma from motor-vehicular accident in Argao.
For the biological process, see Metamorphosis. For other uses, see Metamorphosis (disambiguation) . The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.
Metafiction is primarily associated with Modernist literature and Postmodernist literature, but is found at least as early as Homer 's Odyssey, Chaucer 's 14th century Canterbury Tales, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1756).ervantes ' Don Quixote, published in the 17th century, is a metafictional novel and so is James Hogg 's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner published in 1824. Russian author Nikolai Gogol implements a limited, self-referencing narrator in his novel, Dead Souls published in 1842.