"A pesar de su triste y repugnante forma actual, era un miembro de la familia, a quien no podía tratarse como a un enemigo."En medio de todos los proyectos literarios que Kafka estaba escribiendo en ese fabuloso momento creativo, se estaba gestando uno más, una idea acerca de un hombre caído en desgracia y puesto a prueba por su propia familia. Tenía el argumento rondando en su mente, pero no terminaba de delinearlo. Poco a poco, esa idea que sorprendió a Kafka de la misma manera que al héroe de...

“would you still love me if i was a worm?” except it’s a whole book

Any day you wake up as a cockroach is a shit day.

A paraphrase. When my (ex)husband went out one evening from unsettling dreams of how faraway his wife was, he went out drinking and whoring. Next morning he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. A cockroach. Much he knew it though. None of his friends recognised it, in fact they preferred the cockroach to the person he had been and he had a great time. When it was time for him to come home, armour-plated as he was he crushed his wife underfoot (well fists and kicks, but same ...

كم مرة رغب كافكا في الموت؟كم مرة أراد التلاشي من هذا العالم؟كم مرة شعر بالغربة حتى عن ذاته؟إن كان التورية تعرّي فلا تعرية مثل التي وجدناها ‏هنا في هذا العمل الأدبي الفريد ،،الموجع و-ياللغرابة ‏الممتع للغاية يرسم كافكا العلاقة بين الإنسان ونفسهيمزق كل المتعارف عليهيثور ويلقي بكل ما عرفناه سلفًا في الناريتفرج على الحريق باستمتاع و حزن ‏وشعور عميق بالذنب لا يفارقه;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;يـا لكلِّ هذا الوجعيـا لهذا الاغتراب ‏ويالهذه الروح التي تشهق بينما تجرها أشباح في بذلات أنيقة ونظارات مذهبة الأطر إلى أع...

*edited on 26.04.2024 after reading and in response to Father's Last Escape by Bruno SchulzThe MetamorphosisFranz KafkaThe Metamorphosis can quite easily be one of Franz Kafka’s best works of literature- one of the best in Existentialist literature. Franz Kafka has been one of my all time favorite authors, he quite effortlessly shows the struggle of human existence- the problem of living in modern society- through the narrator, the world of Kafka is surreal having tinge of fantsay but still a pe...

It was no dream.Gregor Samsa awakes one day, changed forever. How unpredictable is life, one moment leading to a new labyrinth of existence where forward is the only motion available, our scars and choices following us in a tuneless parade with few interested spectators. Despite our lives being a personal struggle, it is constantly judged, criticized and appraised by all those whom we encounter. Oh, the injuries we inflict upon one another. We alienate and assume instead of communicate, we fear ...

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to discover he's been transformed into a giant beetle-like creature. Can he and his family adjust to his new form?The Metamorphosis is one of those books that a lot of people get dragooned into reading during high school and therefore are predisposed to loath. I managed to escape this fate and I'm glad. The Metamorphosis is quite a strange little book.Translated from German, The Metamorphosis is the story of how Gregor Samsa's transformation tears his family apa...

I once used my copy to kill a beetle.
Thereby combining my two passions: irony and slaughter.

*wields*

Gregor waking up one morning as a bug was a hilarious analogy of the effects an illness can have on someone, as well as on those who are close to him. Though the underlying story behind the hilarity of the analogy was anything but funny. I took it as more of a warning of what NOT to do when a loved-one is afflicted by some unfortunate disease or circumstance. I found his resistance of acknowledging to himself that he had become a bug in the beginning of the story to be very interesting. When he ...