Books

05/09/2015 – 23:00

Metamorphosis (1915)

Author: Frank Kafka

The amazing realism surreally, with you:

Imagine in a normal morning as any other, you wake up transformed in a big insect like a cockroach. What would you do? How would your relatives react?

With this thought the father of “Nonsense literature” Franz Kafka around us in a crucial dilemma lived for Gregor Samsa. Gregor was transformed in a monster of the night to day and now he needs learn how lives with this appearance. The man also needs to find another way to support his parents and his sister. But, how will be the Gregor parents’ reaction about his new look?

Using surreal contexts and applying it in day by day Kafka could express of a brilliant way all the agony, the loneliness, the despair and the acceptance in this masterpiece. Metamorphosis in October of the 2015 will be 100 year old. The book is no doubt one of the most translated books and it’s one of the few that never lost his brightness with the pass of time. An absurdly surreal book with an unforgettable story.

Bruno Gabaldo