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| Name: |
Franz Kafka | | Birth Date: |
1883 | | Death Date: |
1924 | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist, short-story writer |
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Biography of Franz Kafka
19616 words, approx. 65.4 pages
 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...
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Biography of Franz Kafka
17936 words, approx. 59.8 pages
 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...
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Biography of Franz Kafka
5563 words, approx. 18.5 pages
 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...



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The Metamorphosis Information
4,214 words, approx. 14 pages
 The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin" (see Lost in translation,...




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 The Village Voice
The Metamorphosis
09/24/2003: 311 words, approx. 1 pages A Bug's Life: Peter Kuper Puts Pen to Kafka's Metamorphosis THE METAMORPHOSIS By Franz Kafka Adaptedby Peter Kuper Crown, 80 pp., $18 Kafka's imagination enters Peter Kuper's dystopic pen as electricity powered by angst and emerges as a force field of eeks, scrapes,...
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Metamorphosis
09/12/1997: 511 words, approx. 2 pages MARY VALLO, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-12-1997 METAMORPHOSIS -- BREATHING LIFE INTO CARDBOARD, PAPER By MARY VALLO, Staff Writer Date: 09-12-1997, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star ...
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 Vibe.com
The Metamorphosis
7/25/2003: 2,904 words, approx. 10 pages 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,...
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 The New York Observer
Richard Lewis: The Metamorphosis
2/25/2007: 1,460 words, approx. 5 pages 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...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Michael P. Ryan
11,960 words, approx. 40 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Martin Greenberg
9,350 words, approx. 31 pages
 In the following essay, Greenberg examines The Metamorphosis as the dying lament of a spiritually vacant modern man.
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Social Analysis of Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis
3,848 words, approx. 13 pages
 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.
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Alienation in The Metamorphosis
3,254 words, approx. 11 pages
 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
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