The Metamorphosis Anticipates Modern Feelings of Alienation
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Bohemia, Czech Republic, Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Date: 1915
Article abstract: Franz Kafka, an obscure writer and lawyer working for a Prague insurance company, published The Metamorphosis, a seminal work of surrealistic fiction focusing on a modern, alienated, and angst-ridden antihero who cannot adapt to his grotesque, inexplicable transformation into an insect.
Summary of Event
By 1912, Franz Kafka had completed The Metamorphosis and was reading it to his narrow circle of friends, but it was not until 1915 that he agreed to publish the story, which was issued in a minor serial publication, Die Weissen...
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