Oliver Kann answers “Is there an official theory about the real...”

Sara asked this question about La metamorfosis:

Is there an official theory about the real meaning of this book ? Has F. Kafka ever talked about it ?

Oliver Kann It seems that he himself never explained its meaning. Many of us (or the Wiki at last) would have known if he did.
But I guess the meaning of this part…moreIt seems that he himself never explained its meaning. Many of us (or the Wiki at last) would have known if he did.
But I guess the meaning of this particular work of Kafka in not that mysterious. Kafka examines human nature with its vices and inclinations. In real life he sees that a man can be inhuman, narrow-minded, cold-blooded, complacent, unfair, illogical and so on (like all those people surrounding Gregor) and demonstrates this in his texts.
I believe that the very idea of a bug-man is quite simple in general. Let us say a writer is concerned about injustice and cruelty of man and world, so nothing extraordinary in the fact that one day the idea comes to his mind to transform a good man into a bug and make him suffer from the behavior of people…(less)

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