The Metamorphosis

See also: Metamorphosis

the Metamorphosis ( Die Verwandlung ) is a news Allégorique written by Franz Kafka, published in 1915 the, and undoubtedly most famous of its works with the Lawsuit . A salesman, Gregor Samsa, awake to be transformed into a “monstrous insect”. Much highly interprets it like a tale symbolic system, leading criticisms to frequently associate it with the Existentialisme.

the Metamorphosis is opened with a multitude of interpretations. In fact, the book of Stanley Corngold ( The Commentator' S Despair ) counts some more than one hundred thirty. Most obvious evoke the social treatment of different individuals. Others approach loneliness and the despair which a setting with the variation generates.

History

One day, the main character, Grégor, while awaking, discovers that it was transformed into an enormous cockroach.

The history is not completely stripped of humor: for example, the concern first of Grégor, in spite of the events, it is to go to work. Curiously, its family is not very astonished by her condition.

However, the intrigue turns around the interactions of the insect with its family, and their refusal. Grégor cannot speak under this aspect and thus does not communicate with anybody. However, it seems to keep its mental faculties, which its family is unaware of. Horrified by its appearance, they lock up it in its room. They try to take care of him of nourishing it. Nevertheless, they avoid the contacts. The father of Grégor even misses killing it.

Confined in its room, the only activities of Grégor are summarized to look by the window and to climb with the wall and the ceiling. Grégor re-appears one day, hoping to lead his/her beloved sister to join it in its room and to play to him of the violin. Its rejection is however severe when she declares openly with the family:

we must try to disencumber us. We tried all that was humanly possible to take care of him and to support it with patience; I believe that nobody can make us the least reproach.

Grégor turns over in its room, lie down and dies. With discovered body, the family feels relieved of a heavy burden, and considers the future again. The lapse of memory of Grégor is fast.

Analyzes

This text is a dependant reflection and being a result of the Lettre to the Father, indictment addressed to its parent on their paradoxical relation, which mixed mistakes and admiration, goods and bad feelings, repulsion and attraction. In assumption the author is thus connected in Grégor, being in permanent conflict with his father because of their differences.

See too

External bonds

  • audio version in mp3 of the incipit and complete text
  • Film
  • Biblioweb

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