A Study of Kafka’s Critic of Modernity through Reverse Evolution In The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis falls squarely in the genre of modernist fiction. Kafka wrote it in 1912 and published in 1915. The fate of a lonely travelling salesman Gregor expresses the common modernist concern with the alienating effects of modern society. Kafka’s emphasis on the disintegration of family bonds, and the alienating experience of modern life reverberated strongly with a reading public that had just survived World War I and was on its way to a second world war. Today Kafka’s reputation as one of the most important writers of modern times is undiminished . Kafka employs the fictional literary elements he constructs to address the very non- fictional, existentialist aspects of society and life. Gregor Samsa is the protagonist of the metamorphosis. By starting out with Gregor's metamorphosis into a bug , The Metamorphosis plays around with some interesting questions as to the significance of transformation. Samsa transforms through reverse evolution. Reverse e...