The Metamorphosis (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1915
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Allegory, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Self, Betrayal, Guilt, 1910’s, Reality, Punishment, Fantasy, Hallucinations or illusions, Work or workers, Sales personnel, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Insects, Isolation, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Prague, Czechoslovakia
The Work
Franz Kafka, who wrote relatively little in his short life and who published less, has been enormously influential on later writers, including writers in North America. He is considered an exponent of German expressionism—his work deals with a world that seems normal and recognizable but is also surreal, seemingly influenced by emotional and subconscious states, especially guilt.
Kafka has inspired a lengthy list of American writers. By creating a parallel between anguish and hope, employing a tightly controlled perspective, and adding a liberal sprinkling of...
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