Viva Modern Critical Interpretations The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis cannot be interpreted coherently as a fantasy of death and resurrection, or as an allegory on the less is more fate of being a writer. Gregor’s death is not an effectual sacrifice, not a self fulfillment, and not even a tragic irony of any kind. It is another Kafkan negation that refuses to negate the given, which is the world of Freud’s reality principle. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo’s White Noise.