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Summary: Nice and short...
Review: I enjoyed the book although I didn't read all the critiques that are included in the back of the book. I don't think that it's important to come to the same conclusion as any of the critics to like a book but you have to identify with at least some small part of the book. There are many circumstances that I really felt with Samsa, the main character, and his family. Very short and thus worth the small amount of time if only to get introduced to Kafka.
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Summary: ¡Es fascinante el significado que "oculta"!
Review: Se trata de un libro excepcional. Yo lo lei por tratarse de Kafka, pero cuando lo termine realmente no entendi que tenia de maravilloso leer sobre una persona que despierta convertido en un asqueroso bicho y como afecta a su familia. Un par de dias despues me di cuenta del encanto "oculto" de Metamorfosis. No vale la pena que yo te diga el significado que descubri, por que te perderias el misterio y magia que grita el libro entre sus líneas. Lo extraño es que otros que han comentado el libro en esta seccion no parecen haberlo visto. Es verdaderamente increible la manera de Kafka de transmitir "ese" significado. ¡Disfrutalo!
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Summary: Unsure
Review: I am still unsure about the apple was thown at the main charecter. Was the apple really an apple? I do not think, so.
Since, real people can not turn into animals, could it be that the main charecter was just slowly going insain? I am still not clear about his lower half of his body, could it be that he had broken his leg and that is why he can not move them. I am not conveinced that he had turned into an animal. It is ironic that all the time he was trying to support his family (even if he was not that good at his job) did not want to support him when he became sick. I am aware that they where poor and could hardly care for themselves, however he did not seem to have been bathed, even the three men were repulsed with his appearence. This story is worth reading, at least once.
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Summary: Points to the repulsion we have for deformed persons
Review: Metamorphosis is a short read: it's either a long short story or a very short novel. But in these few pages Franz Kafka serves up an important theme--this is the way humans react when one of their children or parents suffers some medical condition that makes them repulsive to others. Pity the poor parents who have to raise a child with a serious facial deformity that makes them ugly. Pity the children whose own parents are suffering a fatal disease. In both cases, Kafka is saying that the human tendency is to hide the problem or to wish it to go away--i.e. for that pitiful soul to die. This is ghastly, but perhaps true. Think of the strain on a marriage when a deformed child is brought into the world--many such marriages don't last. In the case of the novel the family try to hide their son when he metamorphs into a beatle. They try to maintain their love for their son but find it impossible because their son's repulsive appearance overwhelms them. They soon prefer that the beetle, their son, die. The son's metamorphosis is a metaphor for this paradox faced by families of the sicked or deformed. Such a theme is deeply disturbing. But as Voltaire said, if you want to write a great book you must embrace a great theme.
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Summary: Great
Review: Twisted, wierd, bizarre and wonderful. This book will make all those with an open mind and active imagination want to read the rest of his work. Don't start reading cliff notes or the 8 billion editorials about the book's underlying themes. The book is only 80 pages, and it is more fun to guess what Kafka meant all by yourself.
After all, no one ever asked him, so no one knows who's opinion is the right one anyway.
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Summary: A Strange Read
Review: I first read Frank Kafka's metamorphosis when I was a teenager and couldn't understand the nagging it left in my head. Reading it again now that I'm in my thirties after seeing many of my friends and family going though the agony of ill health and sickness I understand that nagging was telling me to go get a full body check-up least I be harboring some awful debilitating illness. Or had I just read a fictional book about a man who morphs into an insect?
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Summary: Huh?
Review: I read this book in high school, but decided to take a fresh look since my son has to read it for his summer reading. And I just don't get it. What is the point?
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Summary: Let the good times roll...
Review: Kafka, along with Dostoevsky and Thomas Mann, is one of the writers who captured the sublime and humane in their works of the sorrow and inhumanity of the world. "The Metamorphosis" displays this uncanny ability and remains one of the classic short stories of the twentieth, or any other, century. When one finishes this book, or just about any other of Kafka's, one feels cleansed by the cathartic effect of the work. This author, and this work, are one of a kind.
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Summary: symbolism in the metamorphosis
Review: I just read this book a few days ago, and it more than worthy of being called a classic. I'm still drawing thoughts as to what the symbolism means. The way I veiw it, Samsa was main source of income on the family, because of the father's aging problems and not being able to work, and is only truely noticed when he isn't working dependably "don't just stay in bed making yourself useless". To his family and to his boss (kafka hated his job and his boss in real life) he was looked at as something as a horse, good only to do work; but horses are still adored and loved by numerous people so that would an inferior symbol as to how samsa's company saw him. Instead of a horse samsa turns into a bug, which can also represent a time in any person's life when they feel that everyone is watching them and judging them. So by turning all the outside concerns of samsa's (the way people view him and general physical looks) he can focus on his inner self. This is proven by two passages, one when gregor's furniture is taken out and he starts loosing his human identity (further isolating him from society to be alone with his inner slef) and when he reaches for what he wants, not what his boss or parents want, even though he ultimately fails at getting his sister to play her violin to him alone. As for other reviewers, sebastian and gregory: 1)kafka is not a romantic writer. the deffinition of a romantic is any writers that flees from the present and aviods the facts, be it to the past, the future or some vague fog. Kafka is an existentialist writer, which is not same. When I first saw that metamorphosis got only 4 stars I wanted to search for any bad reviews, and i stopped with gregory's measly 3 star review. First off samsa turns into an insect that is more like a cockaroach than a fly. If your theory that the book's message is that one day you will have to deal with huge changes in your life is correct, then why didn't samsa "deal" with his change? Instead he dies, and that message sounds like, someday you will have huge changes in your life that will kill you if you do nothing about them...eh i don't think so... the meaning behind samsa's death is that death is inevitable, with most stories it ends with something like living happily ever after, but all those characters eventually have to die, which is one of beliefs of existentialism
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Summary: his definitive work of genius
Review: It is rare to read a story that marks an age, but this is certainly one of them. It is a defining work of modernism, that freakish period of creativity that ended before totalitariansism dominated Europe in midCentury, representing something, some presentiment, that Kafka had the genius to perceive and express. Kafka's metaphor - of au unhappy and exploited young man waking up and finding (or thinking) that he has become a giant insect - is so rich and bizarre that it will live forever. The Angst is unbearable, as is the detail of his vision. It can be read on innumerable levels, which I have explored with each re-reading. He was so proud and ambivalent about this story that, when breaking off his engagement, Kafka is reported to have sent it as an explanation to his bewildered former future father in law, saying simply, "would you want your daughter to marry the person who wrote this?" Another thing about this story is that it is one of the few longer works that Kafka intended to publish. All of the novels were drafts or exercises. THis one was finished, and if only it survived, Kafka's reputation for greatness would be secure.
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