The Metamorphosis (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" climaxes in the very first line - the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the transformation. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. In this collection of new critical essays, Kafka's life and other works are featured as well as notes on the essay contributors.
In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salemen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies and nightmarkes probe the mysteries of modern humanity's unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of so many humans. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories reveals the author's extraordinary talent in a variety of forms -- prose poems, short stories, sketches, allegories, and novelettes...
The stories of this turn-of-the-century writer concern the disillusionment of modern man. To Kafka and to the people in his stories, life is often absurd and meaningless, with only a faint ray of fleeting hope.
This concise supplement to Kafka's The Metamorphosis and other stories helps students understand the overall structure of the works, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author.
This volume also covers The Judgment, A Hunger Artist, A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony, The Hunter Gracchus, The Burrow, Investigations of a Dog, A Report to an Academy, The Great Wall of China, and Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk.
Added by: derrida | Karma: 83.92 | Fiction literature | 14 November 2007
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' is about the evolution of a family due to the metamorphosis of that family's son from human to vermin.
