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Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of
Narcissus"
The painting that I chose to compare to the novel Metamorphosis, by
Franz Kafka, was painted in 1937 by Salvatore Dali. Dali is an established
Surrealist painter, who, like Kafka, explored his own psyche and dreams in
his work. Dali invented a proce ....
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.... the kneeling Narcissus has become the statue
of a hand, holding a cracked egg, from which emerges The Narcissus flower.
This painting reminded me of the first chapter of Metamorphosis,
where the main character, Gregor Samsa, first realizes that he is
confronted with a ludicrous fate in the form of a gigantic insect. In both
Kafka's and Dali's work, I noticed that they both implement a certain
"receding" technique. Dali tends to put an object (In this ....
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