The Metamorphosis
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A objetividade da apresentação da metamorfose de Gregor nos coloca imediatamente dentro do universo da história, quase que à força, o que acaba funcionando bem pra um texto curto como esse.
Apesar de ser tratado como criatura e se tratar como incapaz, a narração transparece ao leitor a humanidade ainda pulsante em Gregor, pintando os maus tratos da familia com tons de crueldade e a descrença de Samsa com matizes de pena e melancolia.
Por vezes me vi na autodiminuição de Gregor em prol da felicidade da família e na privação da própria liberdade, criando pra si uma prisão nunca reforçada pelo ambiente em si (não foi exatamente uma observação feliz rs).
Mesmo com um tom monótono e objetivo, Kafka ainda conseguiu me tocar com suas insinuações sutis e suas cenas viscerais.
I liked the part where the story ends, other than that this was thoroughly unenjoyable.
The Metamorphosis I think it is a good book to read in one sitting because it is very thin book about 100 pages (depends on publication). This book is almost his biography, his relation with his father, his family and his job. I read this book in the perspective of how Kafka feels what he's gone through, I already read about him before reading this book and really helps in reading the book.You will compare some instances from this book to his real life. But put this all aside, it is decent book to read not extraordinary that some people call (everyone have their own opinion). There is not much you can get from his book and in end you fell depressed and sad also. I'll not talk more because of spoilers, but this book is for those who want to read a short book.
Excepționale, prin profunzime și multitudinea de înțelesuri: “Metamorfoza”, care spune atât de multe despre adevărata valoare acordată individului de societate, chiar și de propria familie, chiar și când sacrifică totul pt ei; “O dare de seamă pentru o academie”, despre ce ne face umani (in cele mai rele și josnice sensuri) și “Colonia penitenciara”, simultan o excepțională demascare a colonialismului genocidar (Congo, deși autorul nu dă nume), ca și a sistemului judiciar german (în mai multe scrieri mi s-a parut că F. Kafka a prognozat excepțional esența stalinismului și holocaustului, deși a murit inainte de manifestarea lor). Restul textelor variază între bune (“În fața legii”, “11 feciori”), mediocre (“Verdict”) și proaste (“Medic de țară”). Per ansamblu, proză scurtă atât de crudă și dură precum la Kafka am mai întâlnit doar la supraviețuitorii Gulagului, precum Șalamov.
Wow, I mean... how did someone even come up with this concept? And then somehow write it such that it was legit sad by the end.
There's really nothing much to summarise with the plot: Gregor Samsa wakes up one day somehow transformed into some kind of venomous bug or beetle. This book is about how this altered state of things affect his own mentality, as well as how his family copes with it.
The book starts off being absurd and comical at the beginning, but in the second and third parts of the book, when the Samsa family has to rally around the beetle-that-used-to-be-Gregor, that's when you get some amazing moments.
Take when his mother, Mrs. Samsa, is thinking about leaving his room furnished as it always was so that “when Gregor returns to us, he finds everything unchanged and can forget the intervening time all the more easily”, despite the fact that as a beetle he would have actually preferred having an emptier room to scurry around in. Or when his family try to feed him, but giving him human food which he could not appreciate.
The end result is a deeply thought-provoking work that can be read as an allegory for so many things.
4.5, I noticed a bug crawling on my arm while reading the final page and squashed it without hesitation... oops
I liked it, the story was much better than I expected. The stress of reading it in German took away some of the pleasure, but still quite a good story.
I admit this is a well written book. I just didn't get much out of it and found it a bit of a downer.
This is a reread for me, though my first reading was over forty years ago. It still had the same impact though: powerful...sad...tragic...strange...isolated....A man wakes up and finds he has changed into a dung beetle. His family, his employer, the servants—-all find the man repulsive. It's never clear what has happened, and it's never clear what is going on, and it's never clear how everything is resolved. A very strange story.
A brilliant read. The descriptions of Kafka imprint an image through out the book and makes you think about Gregor nonstop and the situation he found himself in.
Gregor Samsa might have turned into a bug-like creature but his family has always been assholes... I mean parasites.
Um... what
Something crazy happens and the family has to deal with it. It is hard to deal with and when it looks hopeless the problem goes away.
The ending seemed a bit abrupt. It was too quick for my tastes.
The glimpses of chatacters were nice, but I think I would have liked a little more depth.
It was an interesting and short little story.
The Metamorphosis is a classic piece of horror by German author Franz Kafka. Well written story about how a family deals with a horror in the family.
Franz Kafka digs in deep through your psychology and tickles it with his vague but astonishingly thought provoking storytelling. This one's about how Gregor Samsa, a rather ordinary gentleman suddenly transforms into a vicious insect. And how everyone around him is affected by this abrupt change. Powerful imagery with that added tinge of Kafkaesque narration! This is indeed a classic! The Metamorphosis is sure to amuse you and rattle that little squishy thing inside your skull, for your own good!
Я всегда боялся читать Кафку (фамилия одна чего стоит!), потому что думал, что его книги — это какая-то философская шизофрения и будет невероятно трудно это осилить. Словно я завязну в жидкой смоле и не смогу выбраться оттуда.
Но «Превращение» оказалось очень интересным (по-своему) произведением. Никаких подробностей в духе фильмов ужасов с кишками и червями не обнаружилось. Зато главного героя стало очень жаль. И не смотря на то, что он потерял свое человеческое лицо, он сохранил свою человеческую сущность в отличие от его семьи, которые остались людьми. Людьми ли?