The author of the novel "The Metamorphosis" is the Austrian writer Franz Kafka. "Metamorphosis" was completed in 1912 and first published in the October issue of the monthly "White Book" in 1915. Kafka used his own unique artistic style to artistically recreate the "incident of man turning into a beetle" using symbols, detailed descriptions and other techniques, giving the work an absurd and incredible tone.
The poem "Metamorphoses" is a long poem written by Ovid in ancient Rome. ***15 volumes. Includes 250 ancient Greek and Roman mythological stories. The content starts from the "creation of the world" to Rome at that time: the famous ones include Phaethon driving the golden chariot of the sun god and being struck to death by lightning, Narcissus turning into a narcissus after his death, Orpheus looking for his wife and love. The love affair between the gods Aphrodite and Adonis, etc. These stories are not closely related to each other. Although there are some plots of gods and humans transforming into birds, animals, wood and rocks, transformation does not occupy a major position. Later European writers, painters, sculptors, etc. often drew materials from it.
Introduction to Franz Kafka:
Franz Kafka lived under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (a political union composed of the Austrian Empire and Hungary) Czech German novelist, who works as an insurance employee. His major works include the novels "The Trial", "The Castle", and "Metamorphosis".
Kafka was born into a Jewish businessman family in 1883. He entered Prague University to study literature and law at the age of 18. He began writing in 1904. His main works are four collections of short stories and three novels. Unfortunately, most of them were not published during his lifetime, and none of the three novels were completed. He lived in an era when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was about to collapse, and was deeply influenced by the philosophies of Nietzsche and Bergson. He also always took a bystander attitude toward political events. Therefore, most of his works used deformed and absurd images and symbolic intuition to express hostile people. An isolated, desperate individual surrounded by a social environment.
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