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I used this story as the lens through which to understand drama and storytelling as I tried to expertly adapt it to animation over 10 years.

The secret ingredient to Kafka is that the patriarch of his family was a kosher butcher in the czech countryside.

It will all make sense once you realize that.

I feel like this book perfectly captures the "finished college, moved back home, can't find a job or have a really shitty one, loaf around the house and play vidya" kind of vibe. The mixture of feeling worthless and burdensome, while also resenting that other people would expect you to be something else.
What do you guys think this book is about? Are there other books that capture the same feeling for you?

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Have you read much else of the Olympia Press?

>I’ve been transformed into a hideous, unsightly creature, but never mind that, I’m late for work!
Bravo Kafka. Biggest wageslave writer of all time

Am I the only one who found the metamorphosis really cute? The descriptions of Gregor's behavior as a giant beetle particularly: he acts as though bashful and hides under a couch, he leans against the window and gazes outward, he sits still by the door to hear his family talking, he scuttles across the walls and ceiling. Very adorable - it has an endearing and pet-like quality. On top of that is the relationship between his sister and him. The affection from her to Gregor is heart-warming in a cute way. For me this added to my disgust when she betrayed him.

Is The Metamorphosis actually about NEET culture?

Metamorphosis thread
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Discussion on the themes of fate, how it's realized
I was wondering if anyone has a better strategem for unpacking Foucault's analysis of Kafka's word (specifically Der Prozess), and could relate it. I tried formulating an argument around the Zeitungen and the manufactured reality, and though it yielded good enough insights to be a viable semiotic that enables a second matrix of meaning in the book, one of industrialized responsibilities beyond familial, it does seem a bit anemic at parts.

Is this the best book about the absolute horror and hell that is work? Reading this book makes me feel nauseous in the same way thinking about work does, I have to take breaks reading so I don't puke. When I think about work and how we're basically born to do forced soul-crushing labor for the majority of our lives I start shivering and then have a full on hyperventilating seizure panic attack.

Kafka's "metamorphosis" is a prefect description of the alienation and strain one puts on their family when becoming a NEET. Gregor becomes unable to communicate and is pretty much trap in his reflecting on life. He comes to enjoy things only someone in his condition could enjoy I.E. hanging from the ceiling. Just like a NEET has all the time to explore things that people are too busy to. His sister is caring of him at first and wants to protect him from his parents. His father is angry at what he has become. His mother is frightful of him, but comes around to try and be as maternal as she can. But in the end his family becomes resentful to Gregor. They work hard to keep him around, but are brought drougery because of it. This colmanates to Gregor dying because of the misery he has brought his family, the inferiority he feels, and the pain he endures because of this state. Which is not unlike how NEETs lead life's of depression, inferiority, and longing for normality. And for most cases leads to suicide.

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Was Gregor Samsa a cuck?

The saddest and most ruthless thing I've ever read. What about you? And what do you think about The Metamorphosis?

It's about transforming from male-to-female.
Truly a seminal book that everyone interested in transgender rights / feminism should read

Why did he turn into a bug?

So why did he turn into a bug?

Can someone explain to me what the point of this book was? I get the idea of him being "crushed like a bug" has double meaning and all that, but I didn't really "connect" with the book in any meaningful way.

Yeah, he has his priorities wrong, and worries about the wrong things considering his situation.

Yeah, he's in constant pain, and everything is so awful for him.

Yeah, he's disgusting and his family grows to hate him because of his situation until he eventually dies.

So what? I didn't get outright bored with the book, but compared to Kafka's other works, it's really disappointing.

I'm looking to get into Turkish culture, what is a good translation for this book?

Also, anything I should read before this?

What do you think are some of the best titles in literature?

Kafka, I think, had the best titles.

"Die Verwandlung," for example. Great title. It immediately gets you thinking, who's this guy Verwandlung, and why does somebody want him dead?

Just finished this, what did you guys take from it?

Just finished this, really liked it

What's your personal / favorite interpretation?

May we have a discussion about The Metamorphosis, gentlemen? What's your interpretation of it?

Reading it I've found myself identified with the protagonist. I have a job now, but I've been a NEET during several years. Back then, I spent most of my time in my room, on the bed or the computer, I used to eat on it, I was losing touch with friends and even family that lived in my house: my brothers, my parents. Sometimes I was completely detached from my social, human side and felt like I was just an extension of the keyboard and mouse. Maybe Kafka was NEET at some point of his life and felt this way too, except he read and wrote instead of using a computer.

What other language(s) do you know, what books have you read in languages other than English?

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God damn this shit was sad. Seems pretty open to interpretation. Tell me what, if anything, you think Kafka was trying to say with this.

Was his transformation a metaphor for anything?