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tell me /lit/

what do you think of Methamorphosis ?
tell me your thoughts , interpretations, etc

>> No.1092590

he like turns into a bug and shit

>> No.1092594

he turned into a bug in a post-modern sense that is to say he didn't actually transformed just metaphorically and no one realized it because they were too busy being german and shit

>> No.1092602
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1092602

he
Like ....turns into a bug.. and ...and... well ..yeah

>> No.1092603

>>1092594
>1912
>post-modern

>> No.1092609

highschool fag reading this just now?
Kafka gets alienated from his surroundings,family, and society as he is one day transformed into a bug, it the story it is never depicted what bug. He becomes more and more alienated and is trapped in his room by his parents and sister. Slowly his family forgets about him as a human being and even his beloved sister thinks less of him. Kafka begins to think, act, behave like the bug he is transformed into. He eventually dies and no one grieves. The end

>> No.1092610

I think if it was written today, people would only see it as a simple fantasy short-story but since it is written way back (when exactly) you cant help but congrats the guy for having a wild imagination.

so it was fun :)

>> No.1092615

>>1092603
oh, 1912... now i know more :)

>> No.1092619

>>1092603
2deep4u i guess

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1092635

It's kafkaesque.

>> No.1092641
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1092641

It's kafkaesque.

>> No.1092670

Gregor's anxiety manifested into a complex fantasy (he imagines he is a bug) it is a hyper-sensitive state, and his family reacts in various shades of disgust and pity. It is expressionism (like edvard munch's the scream where the interior is manifested as an exaggeration of natural form)

>> No.1092686

>>1092610

Agreed.

As a matter of fact, I think people overanalyze the everliving fuck out of pretty much everything Kafka ever wrote.

>> No.1092695

>>1092641
hee hee

why is it that noah baumbach seems totally divorced (lol) from humanity beyond this movie?

>> No.1092705

I liked In the Penal Colony better.

>> No.1092721

>>1092695
As thrilled as I am that someone besides me has seen The Squid and the Whale, I have no fucking clue what you're asking.

>> No.1092750

>>1092641
Where have I heard that joke??

>> No.1092765

>>1092750
Malcolm in the Middle?

>> No.1092769

I love Metamorphosis. I only read it recently and I couldn't put it down 'till I'd finished it (Granted it's short). Anyway, I need to check out more Kafka... apart from this I've read Meditations and Aeroplanes at Brescia. What should I read next?

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>>1092750
Mission Hill, I hope.

>> No.1092805

>>1092769
The trial, which is hilarious if you read it properly.
>>1092686
No.

>> No.1093133

>>1092609
>Slowly his family forgets about him as a human being and even his beloved sister thinks less of him. Kafka begins to think, act, behave like the bug he is transformed into.

The fuck? Did you even read it? His family doesn't "forget about him", the entire time they're completely miserable because they have to essentially care for a vermin almost too disgusting to even look at. His sister doesn't "think less of him," she, just like the rest of his family, become increasingly disillusioned that the thing is even Gregor, and even says that when she finally snaps in part III. She says they can't keep thinking of the vermin as Gregor and that they have to get rid of it so they can move on in their lives.

Also, aside from little instinctive habits, Gregor retains his whole human personality, memories, etc. He starts forgetting bits and pieces, yes, but towards the end he ventures out of his room to try and convince his sister to stay in his room and play her violin for him. Everyone else there was getting annoyed with her subpar playing but he was the only one that ever liked her playing. The fact that he did this even towards the end shows he was still much more "human" than he ever was vermin.