Where is surrealism shown in the novella Metamorphosis?

Question

I need a passage where surrealism is shown, does anyone know a part in the book where there is surrealism?

i read the book people, i just dont understand exactly what surrealism is

Answer 1

The story was about a guy that turns into a cockroach... that wasn't surreal enough?

Answer 2

The whole book is surrealism. Most of what Kafka wrote is surrealistic. Surrealism basically means bizarre and if you read METAMORPOHSIS and don't find it bizarre, you, yourself, are bizarre. You need to read more of Kafka to get the true feeling of him. I would suggest that you read THE CASTLE and THE TRIAL, but there is a seldom printed short story entitled in German EIN ALTES BLATT which can mean an old manuscript, an old page, an old story to truly get your shoes knocked off. Today it is as important as it was in the 20s when Kafka was writing. You figure it out.

Answer 3

I have to go along with everyone else here. A man turns into a cockroach - it doesnt happen every day. Kind of surreal to me. Books are your friends - read them ... Pax - C.

sur·re·al·ism (s-r-lzm)
n.
1. A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.
2. Literature or art produced in this style.

Answer 4

Hey. let's talk surreal. Our avatars are the same (almost).
I think that whole story is surreal. Imagine turning into a cockroach.

Answer 5

A lowly business man wakes up and is a giant bug whom his parents hide in his room until he dies eating rotted trash.

Answer 6

I guess it would be that whole turning-into-a-giant-cockroach thing.

Try reading the book!!