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Title: MAXnotes for Metamorphosis (MAXnotes) by Research and Education Association Staff ISBN: 0-87891-028-X Publisher: Research & Education Association Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (131 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Only a great writer could make me feel sorry for a "vermin"
Comment: Kafka stuns me. In the time it takes most writers to write a chapter, introduce a character, or illustrate a setting, Kafka lucidly conveys the sincere emotions associated with 20th century dissolutionment--and writes a damn good story. In 60 pages!
This book is even quicker than it's 60 pages implies. The words flow and you will be drawn in. I truly felt sorry for Gregor, I wanted his sister to recognize him. This book begins weird and I was not sure about it. Even as it progressed, I was wary of its path. When Gregor first retreated to under the couch and put the sheet over him, it hit me hard. This poor, helpless man was hated by everyone, for being who he was. This book told me as much about the human condition as books ten times it's length.
ADVICE: Spend 2 hours of your life and read this book. Then think for 2 days about it.
milo
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant nightmare
Comment: Kafka knew so well how to make us feel trapped, estranged and lonely like the characters in his stories. He struggled with anxiety and feelings of inferiority in his own life, and his writing expresses the passive realization that life is a dark and confusing nightmare where we in no way are masters of our destinies. A young travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning and realizes that he has been transformed into a giant bug. Having been the provider for his elderly parents and his adolescent sister, he is now forced to crawl around in his room all day, hiding his hideous self from the sister who brings him food, unable to communicate and barred from the world outside. It is a story about being dehumanized and alienated, of being useless and unwanted, of becoming a burden to oneself as well as to others. Kafka is such a phenomenal writer that the mere absurdity of the plot is completely overshadowed by the vivid and somehow realistic descriptions of the emotional and behavioral responses of Gregor and his family to the unreal situation. It is as if Kafka is telling us that this circumstance is no more strange or hopeless than the predicaments faced by the average family.
Rating: 3
Summary: An Aspect of Life
Comment: In the book Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the main character Gregor Samsa deals with the trouble of waking up to becoming a dung beatle. I believe that Kafka wrote metamorphosis on a different level then its rather elementary outershell.I believe that Gregor's struggle is an exaggerated form works with differences in people in the world and I believe that that's what Kafka was trying to accomplish in his writing of this sci fi book. Over decades and decades, people have been judged by the way the look or their creed or their color of their skin. I believe this book symbolizes the way people react to unique forms of characteristics of people.
I enjoyed this book because of Gregor's struggle with this change in his life even if it was a bit obtuse. As the story unravels you find out that in a fit of rage his father handicaps him, which is another weakness that he has to deal with. The story deals with coping with a handicap and is not the kind of "happy " stories that we have today. I believe that this book is a bit boring when it comes to its science fiction meanings but when you look at it as an abstract thought the book is well written and sends a great message. I would recommend this book to someone who is interested in taking a book on levels and not for the first level. If you are looking for a great science fiction book I would stay with a Bradbury book.
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Title: The Stranger by Albert Camus, Matthew Ward ISBN: 0679720200 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Trial by Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir ISBN: 0805210407 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad ISBN: 0486264645 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Crime and Punishment (Crime & Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett ISBN: 0553211757 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ISBN: 0385474547 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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