The Metamorphosis
Kafka's The Metamorphosis is, for all its terse language, sparse emotional display, and brevity, a tale with some pretty huge themes about family dynamics, the personal and professional world, the nature of routine, and the mind-soul-body connection. Its simple, even flat, prose and its curiously passive central character work to contradict the horror of its central plotline: a profoundly ordinary man who lives a lif…