The Metamorphosis
1915 • 98 pages

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Average rating3.8

15

Sadly the version I have of this is badly translated and I found some of the sentences were grammatically incorrect or so convoluted my eyes started to get heavy. However, I'm certain if I read this again I'd score it higher. I grasped a good deal of what Kafka was trying to convey and the idea of your family being repulsed by your change, attempting to care for you out of duty then slowly resenting you is worse than the physical change itself. The constant worry about work, finances and the rest of what he thought would be his return to human life was so easy to judge from an outside perspective. I just wish the copy I bought had been better, if it turns out their all written that way then I'm out

August 23, 2023