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The grotesque in Kafka's Metamorphosis

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March 27, 2012

 

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While most of us would picture Gregor as a cockroach because of the way Kafka described his physical appearance- a “dome-like brown belly” and the “numerous legs”, others have argued that he is not a cockroach. One such person being Vladimir Nabokov who proposed that Gregor has wings hidden under his “hard rounded back”...
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According to Nabokov, the cockroach is “flat in shape with large legs” and since Gregor is “anything but flat” we should consider him to be a beetle instead. The uncertainty of what sort of insect Gregor is exactly heightens the state of hybridity and emphasises the idea of the “undefined” which contributes to the trait of ambivalence...
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