In reading Kafka’s Metamorphosis for class last week, I noticed that the novella is framed in a way that highlights one of its central — if not the central — thematic concerns of the text. Figuratively, frames are a way to organize and structure reality. If you consider a photograph, it is framed or composed [...]
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Get Inspired!
This is a great list. I’d also add: read some literature.
My World Literature class is currently reading Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and I found myself thinking how I might communicate some of the themes and images in this piece on film.
If you are familiar with Kafka’s work, it challenges conventional wisdom with surreal glimpses into real [...]
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On Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Having finished Kafka’s The Metamorphosis once again, I find that familiar, uncomfortable feeling about just what to make of it. I enjoy Kafka for his unequaled mélange of stark reality mixed with a tinge of the allegorical, metaphysical, and supernatural. His writing cannot be classified accurately as magical realism, but it has the same — [...]
Kafka’s Challenge
I think we ought to read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us with a blow in the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, [...]
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About G. R. Lucas
Gerald "Jerry" R. Lucas is an English Professor, photographer, science fiction geek, Mac and Linux dude, devoted husband, cat owner, part-time runner, full-time vegan, BMW motorcyclist, and Mini Cooper "S" driver. And this is his web site.
