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Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...

Franz Kafka is one of the founders of modern literature. His claim to greatness includes his service in completely collapsing the aesthetic distance that had traditionally separated the writer from the reader. In what is probably his most famous work of...

One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Franz Kafka penned novels and short stories that portray the bewildered alienation of modern society. His characters frequently find themselves in threatening situations for which there is no...

Beyoncé lies twisted on the floor. It's after midnight, and she's finally back at London's chic Sanderson Hotel after an explosive Destiny's Child performance at Wembley Arena in front of more than 11,000 screaming fans. Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have retreated to their rooms,...

At 59, after 13 years of sobriety and almost two of marriage, Richard Lewis is as content as a driven, neurotic, workaholic comedian can be. After a self-enforced layoff from stand-up of about two months, Mr. Lewis will perform at Comix, a new club in...

You live here your whole life, and you just never get around to visiting ... yourself.But now take a visit deep within, thanks to National Geographic Channel's documentary "Inside the Living Body," which displays goings-on inside your mouth, throat, heart, lungs, digestive tract, blood vessels...

If ever there was a profession in desperate need of a hero, it’s investment banking. The rapid rate of turnover in the field means that most of those in the profession today never knew the business before it became synonymous with scandal, settlements, sentencing and...

In the following essay, Ryan utilizes the eastern philosophy Samsara to explore suffering, death, and rebirth in “The Metamorphosis,” and ultimately offers a new interpretation of it.

In the following essay, Beicken surveys contemporary criticism of The Metamorphosis.

In the following essay, Greenberg examines The Metamorphosis as the dying lament of a spiritually vacant modern man.

Franz Kafka was not Jewish; Franz Kafka was not Czech, Franz Kafka only identified himself by his own perception of life, and a reality of his own creation. Kafka's family, a prosperous middle class home of economic strivers, embraced the German Jewish circles of Prague, seeking to assimilate with language and Jewish culture.

In the novella The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, the alienation and resentment of Gregor Samsa is present both in his work and at home by physical separation, psychological isolation, and emotional disaffection. In each of these instances, Gregor becomes more complex and controversial to the reader. Not only is Gregor metamorphosized, but the father, mother, and sister are all equally transformed into different people through their responses to Gregor. Kafka's complex story line and form of climax through

Essay attempts to find the character that is the monster in Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis."