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Franz kafka's it's a wonderful life10/12/2023 To use a nasty phrase that we think Kafka would have liked: there is more than one way to skin a cat (gross). Perhaps it's because of the story's nightmare-meets-contents-of-a-Google Calendar quality that a veritable critical industry has been devoted to figuring out exactly what the story is all about (besides a warning against throwing apples at your son). ![]() Gregor's totally abrupt and unexplained transformation is juxtaposed with a lot of really mundane day-to-day details (waking up late, cleaning house) and the result is, well, textbook Kafkaesque. The Metamorphosis is a story about a man, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up as a gigantic, incredibly disgusting bug. And The Metamorphosis is considered to be about as Kafkaesque as Kafka gets. ![]() You don't get your last name turned into a synonym for deeply disturbed alienation unless you write some pretty messed-up stuff.
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