Points to the repulsion we have for deformed persons

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	• The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) Franz Kafka Bantam Classics, 1972 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 158 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

¡Es fascinante el significado que "oculta"!

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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Points to the repulsion we have for deformed persons

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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Great

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.

Unsure

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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Nice and short...

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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