7/3/2023 0 Comments Kafka metamorphosis![]() If you made a list of the most gripping opening lines in literature, the following would surely make it into the top ten:Īs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. Check out the rest of our Little Histories here. In the following excerpt, Sutherland introduces Kafka’s literary mission to assert the pointlessness of literature, and discusses his influence on another writer who grappled constantly with the problems of existentialism and absurdism, Albert Camus. Critics have produced countless different theories to explain the significance of Gregor Samsa’s transformation-and this diversity of interpretive meanings, John Sutherland proposes in A Little History of Literature, is the paradoxical result of a type of literature that takes the meaninglessness of life as its premise. ![]() Take, for example, Kafka’s short story, “The Metamorphosis,” in which the main character turns into a giant cockroach. Absurdist literature is notoriously difficult to read. ![]()
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