Kafka’s celebrated novella is a rather odd tale however its narrative is as easily followed as its meaning is mutable, translucent and perplexingly myriad.
Ostensibly a simple, if surreal tale running to less than one hundred pages of distinctly, bone dry prose, brachyology supplants lyricism here. Franz Kafka’s (1883-1924), Die Verwandlung or The Metamorphosis, originally published in 1915, is one such diamond. As such, a work taken from fine literature’s canon simultaneously refracts multifaceted meanings, much like a cut diamond emits its coruscating light. Books are not mathematical equations subject to inviolate arithmetic principles demanding strict adherence in order to establish unequivocal fact. The meaning of any text is never absolute or reductively definitive. As with beauty, interpretation is in the eye of the beholder and therefore subjective, even when purporting to be objective! Our perceptions are filtered through a diaphanous mental membrane, shaping what we see and architecting our conscious and unconscious cognitive and emotional responses.īooks are wondrous joys partly because they reflect their author’s minds and partly because they reflect our own. Each interpretive response is hypothetically valid, unless rooted in flawed assumptions or fanciful extrapolation. Arts The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka: The Multiple Meanings Of A Sparkling Gem!Fiction’s capacity for polysemic richness can invite a dizzying, heterogenous cornucopia of hermeneutic approaches as readers and critics alike hunt for the possible meaning cocooned within a book’s intriguing pages.
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