Okay, Azzurra, so I read Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. What do you want, a book report?
You know that’s not my style. And there isn’t a whole lot I would say here anyway, since I’m imposing a “no spoilers” rule on myself. :)
It was, however, one of the weirdest things I’ve read in quite a long time. Not because of what happens to the main character, but because of the interactions between the other characters. It’s oh-so-British.
If you need a good evening of “WTF?” then definitely go find Metamorphosis.
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Azzurra
Nov 14, 2004
Odd, considering Kafka’s NOT British.
Moshu
Nov 21, 2004
British? Kafka lived in Prague, the Czech capital, and belonged to the German-speaking minority of the city. Among the German speakers he also used to be a minority because he was a Jew. (Some biographers go even further mentioning that even as a Jew he was a kind of oddity: instead of being a well established ‘burgeois’ lawyer… he was doing what today would be considered legal aid for the (obviously) leftist “red” workers!
But Britihs? No way :)
Michael Hampton
Nov 22, 2004
OK, maybe British wasn’t the right word. European, perhaps. You’d not get that sort of reaction and interaction in the U.S.
Takeyla Anderson
Sep 18, 2006
I seemed to think the story was very interesting and sad and funny at the same time. I must say that I am having trouble identifying the the effect he wanted us o be able to detect, its so many. For whatever its worth, I enjoyed the story and chose to write my fiction essay on it.