Selma erklärt: Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung

Welcome, today I am talking about the transformation of Franz Kafka. Julia brought this topic to my attention. She emailed me and asked how I could interpret this transformation and then she added his own interpretation and I thought she really could do it. Also a video about it. Of course there are many videos like Kafka, but I thought I would still like to add my own interpretation just to explain to you a little bit how I came to the conclusion why I interpret it that way and to maybe give it a closer look, bring that is also there or open several different variants, let's take a closer look at this transformation if you don't know the book at all but have only read the title, perhaps you have been given a task. you should address it, transformation is a very thin book, as you can see, I would be looking at just a few pages there, paying for the time.

There are 91 pages and 91 small pages. It can be read in a relatively short time. The person who has read Power Room knows that the difficulty with Kafka is not Kafka's language. Kafka's language is very simple. The choice of words is very clear and at the same time very understandable. Kafka is the German-speaking author with almost astonishing relevance. You get the feeling that Kafka won't age and I think one of the reasons for this is that Kafka doesn't describe the world to us as it is because that changes who he is. describes is what the world makes of us and that remains constant.

I have the feeling that the effect of the world of coexistence, of family life, on the individual is what Kafka described so masterfully, what catches us again and again. I have the impression that Kafka tells us that our working world tells us about capitalism, he talks to us about the pandemic like no other author and there are things that he himself did not know or experience in that way, but of course he had a lot of enthusiasm and felt a lot So what is the synopsis about? The synopsis is very simple and retold very quickly, and that's not the point.

In fact, you can start from the first page. The phrase is one of the most famous in the history of German literature. Thus, one morning, Gregor Samsa, waking up from a restless dream, found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin that raises so many questions and is so typical of Kavka. We have a Gregor Samsa and they don't introduce him to us. more details Direct questions are you really waiting or are you just continuing to dream is all we are talking about here, the continuation of a nightmare, that nightmare-like thing is typical of Caspar, it always has the feeling that you are thrown into a dream. , not everything can be true, everything is for you So yes, but that is what is special about Kafka, the surreal is the real and that would be the intangible.

I really can't grasp reality. It's a nightmare thing. That's such an interesting turn of events. Berlin has been transformed, it is a vermin monster. You may have already heard that the transformation into a beetle takes place. It may be that a beetle is where the word vermin really is. and fighting can be beautiful too, but this is clearly about something repulsive, monstrous vermin. This double that sounds so scary, monster of a monster, a monster of a monster, now a monster, I actually think it's huge, but it's also called a monster like a monster of a monster and everything this beetle does next goes with this monster, this insect crawls and has a hard shell-like shape on its back and at the same time I did not want this beetle to be drawn at all. or imagined in some way, I wanted this beetle to trigger in the reader such an internal association: you always have the feeling that an insect is part of our human body so far away that we cannot feel it at all, but Kafka feels and we feel so suddenly involved Which is better why it's taken so long to explain when I think this serious transformation is actually through the key to another transformation other than that.

Perhaps it is very important in the negotiation that it is not about this transformation but rather a series of transformations. Elfer transforms physically, we don't know if it is still a dream in the base state or at all, which is now caused by the vermin, but from his transformation, everyone else's transformation changes completely, except his family. It also completely changes that there are several negotiations, these first negotiations are the vermin, which at first glance are 180 degree negotiations because until that moment Gregor is his family, he has to get ahead with his mother, his wife, his sister and himself. to work and hates work.

He can never work. He's been dreaming for a long time about quitting this job, taking a big break, and telling his boss what he thinks, and that's a very, very understandable feeling, I don't know. I don't know if you can imagine, maybe if you're still in school then you might know this frustration at situations and when he goes to work, especially this, I have to go there, I really don't want to. I don't enjoy it, it doesn't satisfy me because I don't understand at all why I do this, I have to stop Gregor, you have to stay with your family by the sea, he would have left this job a long time ago, he would like to have a lot of things for the boss , but can't you need the work that depends on it?

If you also go to school and need some qualifications, then you also depend on the fact that you do that I see done this something that of course you don't want to do makes sense of duty and for consideration consideration is for Another very important thing for me is the transformation of someone who takes his family into consideration if he just throws everything on the ground and says everyone can use me, I'm leaving and then he disappoints his family and you don't do that and that's consideration for his family impulses, so I continue doing this job day after day. tomorrow suddenly it was no longer an approach but a vermin and the vermin is a useless animal that does nothing that only causes harm and that is exactly what Gregor has become now, he is useless and brings harm to his family because he can no longer give them to eat because he can no longer go to work, in fact, an authorized representative, that is, an employee of his company, immediately comes to see what is happening, why he does not come and to kindly do his duty and now he . he can't do that, he's no longer up to it, he's now transformed and that could be interpreted to mean that he got sick, for example, or that he had an accident and that's why he can no longer work, so he's no longer physically able to do his job. work and the reaction to it is not understanding and compassion but indignation from all sides, what is missing now, why is it no longer coming, yes, what should and cannot be expressed because it can' He does not join the discussion because he has lost the language, can no longer communicate and perhaps that has not been possible for a long time.

Communication with his boss, who has never expressed his opinion, he has always dreamed of being able to express himself. his opinion correctly, but communication with his family has also not worked for a long time. Maybe it never worked. He could have had this if he really wanted to be himself and what he wanted to do with his life. be discussed and now someone else or something else has made this decision for him. Now maybe that means whatever it is has come true. So his fear was of being useless, of not being able to take care of others and that happened and when we looked. the family does not react with understanding and consideration but also almost gets offended and what is the point now and now it is no longer useful at first they try to fix the room somehow so that he can crawl in his room but very quickly he tips over and very quickly it's just a burden or he gets hurt, he literally hurts his sister, he accidentally falls under it with medicine and gives it to her hurt and the glass hurts his father throws it at him and the apple gets into its shell and starts to rot there , that means that his family hurts him even more while he is sick, who hurts him while he is already hurt and that is the transformation of the family as well because the family can no longer sit and wait. or agree to let Gregory take care of them.

Now they have to take care of themselves. The father, who had already retired, now has to go back to work. It's probably not the old man's fault, probably yes, he can still work. but he simply rested with his son after work and had a more comfortable life and Gregor also supported him and now everyone has to go back to work. The sister also has to sublet the apartment to other people. Something until now Gregor has financed his training as a sister and now that is no longer possible and of course they are angry about it, but I opened him up to something completely new for the family.

Now they are much more autonomous and I have left this dependency, while Gregorio has reached maximum dependency. Now it depends as much as possible on the family, but basically that's how it was before, I was a prisoner of the family, he was already in consideration. He was a prisoner of all these worries that he had to worry about. So I had to be there for them. I had to pull myself together and see that they were doing well and now, in the summer vermin trial, it would obviously be this prison that. She has always had it, that now she has manifested herself physically and her family, on the other hand, is now freeing herself, which is actually absurd.

You would like to overcome that for the family as well, which is what is happening. but on the contrary, now they are breaking free, becoming independent, the sister is flourishing Even at the end of the book she is still flourishing proud parents now suddenly she has a future 20 today you would say that with a truly modern person on board she has taken her life in his own hands before he has laid down a little and rested now he has taken his life into his own hands and Gregor has decided to be taken out of the game and left to die.

His family has already deported him and he is gone. he gathers dust and guesses and rots almost alive, but he accepts that he knows nothing against it, he doesn't even try to do anything at first, at first he is still fighting for his fur lady to have an image that He recently hung up. This can be interpreted as an awakening of Gregor's interest in the outside world. It can also be interpreted sexually, you can say that Gregor no longer wants to sacrifice himself just for his family, now he would like to see what else there is.

Out there, maybe he would also like to look for a wife, maybe start his own family, that would also be the case with the five of his origins. We are also threatening because that is happening or these free pennies are still a chimera and He is still holding on to this image. He doesn't want you to be left behind, but he's actually losing this window because he only has a room with windows to look forward. Does this outward perspective worry you? He no longer sees well, he just sees. bursts of fog, a gray and the world of women is no longer a future for him and he goes on a kind of hunger strike and lets himself starve to clear the way for his family's transformation for the better.

A tragic story for Regus. from the family point of view a story of liberation that is what is incredible here when you really see it as parents again of course we are disappointed with this Gregory who is also a vermin this is not how we imagined it but in the end it is better for everyone, and it is better for the graves themselves, because the life he had before was actually a life in prison in this job, he hated it so much, then he didn't exist and this bug is his interpreter, you get the feeling of the world because somehow, he himself can that he has not consciously turned into a beetle, but he accepted it very quickly and very quickly accepts, yes, I have to go, I am one and I will not bring you anything, I am just unhappy. simply unhappy if I no longer existed, we would all have it and he goes on this hunger strike and the fantasy of the hunger strike, which emerges in Kafka, even in this well-known work, a hunger artist who does not eat anything, but because there is nothing?

Because he has not found anything, he has what he likes and one has the feeling that this is also the case, Gregor has not found anything that he likes in life if he does not like him. work, he does not like his living conditions, in reality he is overwhelmed, unhappy and without freedom all his life and does not find a way out money flows in these forms this form of armored vermin and then embodies what you have felt for a long time inside you What does this have to do with love Julia used this word the mother loves him I think that what Kafka tells us about love I am a little shocked but it is something that has hurt me a lot, at least to me.

We have this image of unconditional love. Now it cannot be said that Gregor loves his family unconditionally and to the point of sacrifice, but rather the other. Otherwise it is not like that. The family has many godparents. The family has already taken life, now it comes and takes advantage of it and they do not love God unconditionally, that is, as soon as he has changed and now not before. I may care, I can't talk anymore, just like I said, maybe I wasn't able to communicate before. As soon as it happened that they no longer function as we should function, the condition to love him is no longer present. because the condition was your poor family of poets and as long as you do that, it's fine, as soon as he no longer does that in ten beers, you are our love and even the sister who actually stays with him the longest even retires himhis love. to the end because it is pragmatic and that is why it can flourish.

She's not a dreamer, she's not a romantic, she's down to earth, now she's taking life in stride and she's liberated and empowered, she. Gregor may never have been able to. That's how I interpret it. We like to write in the comments that you interpret Negotiation as a worthwhile read simply because it is a very small book and if you can interpret so much, there is so much in it. In addition to what I just said, there are many other approaches on how to read this, through which you all are legitimate and interesting. My approach is perhaps the most obvious to me, but check this out.

Even so, Kafka is an author who. always kept fresh and always updated shows the world that gives us another tip if you are interested in being invited out for coffee there is a really cool graphic novel called Kampf that you can watch by BGIP Marwitz and Robert Crumb The transformation happens there too, the beetle is shown inside and I have to say that k fred would not have been that far away but it is really very well done because I only counted the image of the wall and with it the transformation here we see a little bit but it is not only about the transformation of which is also about and Kafka's life is about the intertwining of life and work and I have to say that after reading this graphic novel, but I can also see another room.

I recommend this one. It's also very entertaining, it's also aesthetically attractive because maybe Europe. .com also knows its typical style. You can't get these images out of your head, but that's maybe a good thing. That's my advice for this comic as an echo of Kafka's works. Actually, it's great, yes, that's my interpretation. the transformation dear Julia, I hope this also answers your questions, I hope you were watching, now Ras's is also taking and that perhaps it has been useful to you and for the rest I wish you a good reading with Kafka or with. other cars see you soon