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100 years of Kafka's master piece "The metamorphosis"


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100 years ago, Franz Kafka published The Metamorphosis, now seen as one of the most significant works of 20th century German literature. The Local speaks to the academic who has reinterpreted it for a modern audience.

 

In 1915 Prague-born writer Franz Kafka published a short story in German literary magazine Die Weißen Blätter (The White Pages).

 

Known casually among Kafka's friends as the 'bug piece', but officially entitled 'The Metamorphosis', the darkly surreal short story would become one of the most famous pieces of German literature of the century.

 

The tale centres on Gregor Samsa, a work-obsessed, miserable travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself mysteriously transformed into a giant insect-like creature. The rest of the story documents Gregor's attempts to deal with his absurd predicament.

 

The short story explores alienation as Gregor becomes more and more distanced from the rest of his family.

 

But Gregor's newly grotesque appearance is also often interpreted as a physical representation of how he is so obsessed by his job that he has ended up neglecting more human aspects of his life

 

http://www.thelocal.de/20150226/kafk...d-100-years-on

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

 

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