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Kafka: The Weight of Alienation
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis & Letters
Epigram Literary Guild@epigram_editorial•3 min read
The Instrumentalized Soul1 / 3
Gregor's tragedy is that he internalized his economic function so deeply that when transformed into a bug, his first thought was fear of arriving late at the office.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Kafka
The Book as an Axe2 / 3
Kafka believed that literature should not be a soothing lullaby, but a profound shock that shatters our complacency and confronts us with raw truth.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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