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Translated and Edited by Malcolm Pasley
Editor's Preface Notes
The Aeroplanes at Brescia
Meditation
Children on the Country Road Unmasking a Confidence Trickster The Sudden Walk Resolutions The Excursion into the Mountains The Fate of the Bachelor The Businessman A Stray Glance from the Window The Way Home The Men Running Past The Passenger Clothes The Rejection For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys The Window on the Street Longing to be a Red Indian The Trees Unhappiness
The Judgement: A Story
The Stoker: A Fragment
The Transformation
In the Penal Colony
A Country Doctor: Little Tales
The New Advocate A Country Doctor Up in the Gallery A Leaf from an Old Manuscript Before the Law Jackals and Arabs A Visit to the Mine The Next Village A Message from the Emperor A Problem for the Father of the Family Eleven Sons A Fratricide A Dream A Report to an Academy
The Coal-Scuttle Rider
A Fasting-Artist: Four Stories
First Sorrow A Little Woman A Fasting-artist Josefine, the Songstress or: The Mouse People
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Dmitry Ter-ovanesyan
reviewed The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published during Kafka's Lifetime on January 01, 2009 The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories: Works Published during Kafka's Lifetime
I suspect interpreting Kafka says more about the reader than the author so here's some insight into my psyche:
Gregor's family are losers. Gregor takes over the "bread winner" position after his father's business fails and provides enough money for the family to live as well as help to pay down the large debt his father's business incurred. The rest of them are fine to let him and sit on their asses. Gregor's father is perfectly healthy, but is happy to mooch too. Then, we find out that his father has been squirreling away Gregor's money on the side to boot.
Gregor works for five years in this manner, never missing a day of work, and the first day he is ill they are jerks. Yet, when the vermin dies and they are employed, they all sit down quick to write letters of excuse for themselves. When the vermin's alive it's an excuse to not leave the house; when he dies they can't work.
They deplore the fact that the vermin cannot understand them despite evidence to the contrary when he hears them talk and follows their instructions (eg. to get back in the room, etc.). Furthermore, they make no effort to communicate with him. I'd like to think if a loved one turned into an insect and I decided to keep them alive in a bedroom of my house, I would get around to trying the blatantly obvious "Hiss one for yes, two for no" routine.
In short, f--- you Gregor's family. You suck.
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