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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

 
Description: ISBN 0141182520 / Author: Franz Kafka / Genre: Classic Literature / Arranged chronologically, this volume brings together all the major ... more
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka ... short stories of Kafka which have been published posthumously. In addition to Transformation and The Judgement, it contains the original first chapters of Kafka's novel Amerika (The Stoker).

Newest Review: ... starts with this very simple decleration. He thought that may be he is seeing a dream but then he realised that it is real ... more

 ... world. But the next lines make us believe that gregor is not concerned about his transformation. He was more concerned about his job as he was a salesman. He was getting late and his mother was calling him from outside the room to come for breakfast. He tried to get up but because of his hard back he was unable to even move on the bed. After two three calls of his mother and sister he thought of getting up with a lot of effort. Gregor Samsa is the sole bread earner of the family. Their family used to be rich but now ...more

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Crowned Review The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka: I Prefer My Robots To Transform (944 words)
by - written on 23/05/04 (Very useful, 1288 readings)
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Kafkaâ??s Metamorphosis in one of those texts many will have heard of and, indeed, many will have read. Its high state within the literary hierarchy stems from its concept of human transformation; the metamorphosis of the protagonist, Gregor Samsa, from a human being into an insect; seen as repellent and ugly. Although the concept appears intriguing, this review seeks to iterate my feelings on why Kafka is one of those marmite figures in the literary world: it seems that you either love him or hate him. Franz Kafka was born in Prague (then part of Austria) on July 3, 1883 to Jewish parents and died at an early age in 1924 as a result of the tuberculosis he ...  Read the complete review

Bryn+Pearson
Crowned Review The most depressing thing I've ever read. (695 words)
by - written on 14/09/01 (Very useful, 452 readings)
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I first read this text back when I was all of about seventeen, and I wept bitterly for the futility of it, for the anguish of the main character and for the utter pointlessness of existence. When you are an angst ridden teenager, it is hard to look beyond the agony in this short tale and to see anything else that is hapening. Looking at it now, I see that this book has a lot more to offer. The tale is simple, if strange. Gregor is a hard working young man who supports his two parents and his little sister. His father does not work, and without Gregor, the family would not survive. One morning, Gregor wakes to find that he has turned into a beetle. He can no ...  Read the complete review

Jay+Pendragon
Premium Review The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka: 'Metamorphosis': a meditation on "the abyss&quo ... (400 words)
by - written on 19/01/01 (Very useful, 331 readings)
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I first read this book when I was 15 years old, I am 20 now and I fully understand it and appreciate it by leaps and bounds more than I did then. This is not so much a simple story about a bloke who wakes up one morning turned into an insect or whatever, this is an epic meditation on the dark recesses of our mind and levels of depraivity humanity is capable of reaching in the depersonalization of men in society. It is the loveliest letter ever written on isolation I have read besides Dostoyevesky's 'Notes from the Underground' and, being a classic of world literature, naturally is stigmatized as perhaps being too mainstream and passe. However, ...  Read the complete review

ddofdexter
Premium Review a bug's death (502 words)
by - written on 30/12/08 (Very useful, 106 readings)
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Metamorphosis is itself a very strong word. As it has been derived from greek word metamorph which means transformation. This work was orginally written by Kafka in german language and its original title Die Verwandlung. kafka is considered a modern writer of existentialism. He believes the sheer and bare existance of the man. Most of his work is very dark, grim and dense. Metamorphosis is a very hard physical novella with which you feel a certain kind of detestation for the creature that the protagonist was converted into. Gregor Samsa woke up one evening to find that he was converted into a bug. The novel starts with this very simple decleration. He thought that ...  Read the complete review

Cow-Lover
Premium Review The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka: A question of responsibility (410 words)
by - written on 28/08/00 (Very useful, 282 readings)
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Gregor. Beloved son in a family of four. Selflessly hard-working. Reliable. Trustworthy. Eager to please. On the day the story begins, he wakes up as a BEETLE. But this is no sci-fi story or cheap horror tale. Instead, Kafka, in his inimitable style, blends fantasy and reality in carefully-measured quantities. The result is a sobering view of the uglier side of human nature, a perspective drawn directly from Kafka's own life experiences. Kafka came from a family which expected a lot of its elder son. Once an adult, he was to take on his father's carefully-built business, provide for his parents, maintain his standing amongst ...  Read the complete review

 

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