Frank Kafka
Classic / Contemporary / Metaphor / Analogy
This is part of the Rory Gilmour reading challenge, and it seemed like a good place to start on that TBR list. With only 55 pages or a 2 hour audiobook ( I ended up going with the audiobook), this short text amazed me - now that I have gotten into reading classics, they are just getting easier, more fun, more relaxing, overall more enjoyable.
Summary
We meet our protagonist as he wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant bug of some kind, his family seems to know that it is him, but because he is unrecognizable they fear and avoid him. The start off by imprisoning him but taking care of him in their own way (observing his family now as an outsider, our bug gets some insight), slowly the conditions which the family was in (realitvily static conditions may I add) change, we watch this new dynamic, which plays itself out quickly and generally into the end of the story - where the family moves on
I am going to bet if you really looked at the text and annotated as you go, you could find 55 themes for the 55 pages. Kafka really crammed them in there and for the sake of it, il list a few.
- Metamorphosis = Change - literally in text to a bug but this could be any major change really
- Change in physical health (which here could open all kinds of possibilities)
- Change in sexuality
- Change in mental state etc.
- Caregiving, Family Dynamics, Perspective, Expectations, Death, Moving On, Finical Status.
Again another classic I never came across at school, but how easy would it have been to 1. read and 2. to write s*** about? like really you could write almost anything and tie it into a theme from here!
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