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Works of Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Kafka, Franz

Kafka, Franz
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Metamorphosis

This is not the only one of Kafka's works dealing with animals; in
Josephine the Songstress, for example, he deals with a mouse, and in A Report
to an Academy we have an ape as the central figure. In The Metamorphosis,
however, Kafka's approach is different from that which he takes with others,
inasmuch as the main character, a commercial traveler called Gregor Samsa, has
assumed the form and the propensities of a huge vermin. In the other two
stories, the animals have adopted the characteristics and qualities of humans.
It is interesting ...

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