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Oh dear cockroach on a sofa

18 June 2008 of Graziella Grisiglione Stampa articolo Segnala articolo

Franza Kafka Imagine a giant cockroach, lying comfortably on a couch, perhaps with an uninhibited and Saccenti, as saying: "if you make a mistake you jump on him"; certainly be horrifying and even some 'absurdly funny; fortunately there are no such scenes, if not in some fantasy film ... But we are just safe? Yet to eye and cross (I am taking the responsibility) of cockroaches would say that there are also many in our society: so many "Gregor" Kafkaesque orbit. Sure, there are no problems that caterpillars become beautiful butterflies! But who is this Gregor and history of this cockroach? Well, what is happening in the Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka. Gregor was a boy after a restless night awake changed: no legs but legs, so many feet. A large dark brown shell, two small occhietti and blacks. Cockroach wakes up: this is the metamorphosis? Yes, but the metaphor is that it nauseating inside the "thin zampino pitiful dancing even more quickly." A wiggle are not the Zampetti but his soul Succubi of his father, for which he feels "inferior" and delete, changing shape. During his metamorphosis Gregor / Franz desperately seeking consent from parent will really like in his life but will not ever, and here again the symbol that encloses a mystery not too unattainable: the hero / cockroach dying of hunger. A life empty of gratification. Kafka was one of those, as there are many, that the "bravo!" More importantly, the parents, in this case the father, no one has ever heard, because it was never delivered. The father hit with the wounds of apples in the novel, the father lives in the Feri with indifference. It covers with a sheet Kafka / Gregor / cockroach shame because evidence to show its fragility, repellent in the eyes of those who do not include nature. Today we say with ease: you stress! Everything is stress and chaos but behind / inside every cockroach today, but certainly yesterday and tomorrow, which handed security there? Gregor watch the world outside the window of his room: everything seems far, is stunned. But the wind is to proclaim the innocence of his parents: "Mr. Prosecutor has compassion for my parents!" What happens at the end of the novel? "But Gregor had no experience in actually walking backwards, and was really very plan."

Walking backwards, even this metaphor for something else?

Graziella Grisiglione

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1 comment on "Oh dear cockroach on a sofa"

    moon
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    Interesting juxtaposition with the implications piscoanalitici between the book and the biography of the author, but there are also many other things to say about Kafka, also on his other works. The process is one of his most beautiful lyrics.

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