By: Franz Kafka Publisher: Waking Lion Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Waking Lion Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 94 Publication Date: August 03, 2006 Release Date: August 03, 2006
Product Description: The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Curiously, his condition does not arouse surprise in his family, who merely despise it as an impending burden. As with all of Kafka's works, The Metamorphosis is open to a wide range of interpretations. Most obvious are themes relating to society's treatment of those who are different, the loneliness of isolation, and the absurdity of the human condition. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
The Disabilities Embedded in our Prejudices It was the genius of this classic work by Kafka, Metamorphosis, to stretche our imagination beyond reasonable limits. The fundamental, even primordal, conflict between parental love and gratitude for a son's sacrificial support of the family with the guilt of being repulsed by the horrible physical and behavioral disfigurment that inexplicably happens to the son pulls us into the awful struggle. Kafka makes us want help for this poor creature, but it is a horrible creature all the same. While the ending seems, in one sense, to be a relief, it seems also to condemn the reader for feeling relief.
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