Franz Kafka- metamorphosis
By drizzleBottle2001
I’m trying to read *Metamorphosis*, but I’m seeing like 100 different versions/editions. What one would you recommend? I’m German, so I’d really prefer one in German if there is one. Thanks!
Reader discussion: Metamorphosis
Public reader discussion about Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
By luckywindow1990
I just finished and I can’t stop thinking about a few things: 1. Like, what actually makes someone “human”? 2. I guess sometimes you don’t get a choice—you end up trading one kind of pain for another, like losing someone vs just dealing with the day-to-day grind. 3. And yeah, life keeps moving, even when you don’t want it to. So I’m curious—did you all like the book? What were your thoughts?
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis embodies an absurdist tone with ordinary daily concerns (such as being late for work) even after the character's extraordinary transformation into a monstrous insect. An allegory of modern society's alienation and angst.
By driftsPocket93
This was kind of a depressing book. It feels like “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but flipped—like what if the people who rely on you would somehow be better off if you weren’t around.
The Metamorphosis by Kafka-Some thoughts.
By door_rusty92
A mug of hot tea, my coziest pajamas, and this weirdly calm feeling while I go back to Kafka’s The Metamorphosis again. I had to reread it, especially after I’d just finished Letter to His Father, because I kept trying to spot Kafka in Gregor. Gregor just felt boxed in everywhere: by his room, by his thoughts, by a body that made him useless to everybody else. The second he stopped being useful, he was treated like he didn’t matter, even though he still cared about his family. In both books there’s this unsettling link too, with Kafka writing about his father coming after him around the room to hit him, and then Gregor under the furniture while his father is chasing him in almost the same way. Was Gregor ever really free? As a worker, used up by his family? Or as an insect, suffering because of them? He was hiding away and disgusted them, and it really made me think of depression, and how people react to someone going through that, only noticing the gross, rotting outside and forgetting the love that’s still in there as time goes on. Nobody really lets you fall apart for very long. Eventually the people around you stop thinking you’ll recover, and then worse, you start thinking that too. When Gregor’s sister stopped believing in him, it felt like he sort of gave in. And when his mother wanted to keep his room the same, it was like she was holding onto the old version of him, just like he was. And honestly, I hated the sister even more than the father. The father at least didn’t hide how cruel he was, but she didn’t seem to care about Gregor from love, more like because it made her feel better about herself. That came through when she got annoyed with their mother for helping. And at the end, she only seems to move on after Gregor dies, like her life gets better because he’s gone. She wanted him dead, and once it happened, she just blooms. The next thing I’m reading better be about unicorns and rainbow farts because I’m over these depressing classics. (totally lying, I love them)