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hyperdontiia 's review for:
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
I think that The Metamorphosis could be read as a really salient critique of capitalism, or a queer narrative, depending on if you determine vermin as something you are made by society or if you become verminlike, verminous to those around you. Societally defined monstrousness. A lot more of this story than people remember is completely encompassed within the action of being buglike, of moving about, of being forgotten, alien to yourself. It is, as such, a tale deeply couched in the hatefulness of being embodied, in the viscera of becoming unknown. It is speckled with moments of hope-- not in becoming human again, but in acceptance of buggishness. These are then quickly slipped away by society. That is to say Kafka is doing a lot, and that's very sexy, and we should respect him and his long bug suicide note.