Book - 6, Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis (1915)

by 

Franz Kafka

Book Read: March 2015

Note Written: 04 July 2015

Metamorphosis -a novella on many unsaid things, feelings; unpleasant truths of family, people around us; unforeseen struggles of change. I am not going into the details of the plot. Gregor Samsa wakes up one day and realizes that he has been transformed into a human sized, ugly-looking insect. What if I share the plight Gregor Samsa? It's scary. I imagined myself being the bug while reading - what would the consequences be? Will people whom I know, people closest to me be able to accept me as I am? Of course not. The bug is a symbol. Your transformations, physical and otherwise, can affect you, the people around you, as you never imagined. What if one day I lose my leg? What if I go insane one day? Wouldn't I be a big liability to people around me? Wouldn't I rather kill myself? 

I have a shiver pass through me every time I think of 'Metamorphosis' or 'The Trial'. Kafka has woven 'Metamorphosis' with disturbing finesse and has scarred my mind with fear, forever.