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Frames in Kafka’s Metamorphosis

by grlucas on 17. Nov, 2008 in Literature, Notes

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!

Get Inspired!

by grlucas on 07. Apr, 2008 in Literature, Photography

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

On Kafka’s Metamorphosis

by grlucas on 15. Jul, 2004 in Literature, Scholarship

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 — [...]

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