What has made it a classic is the question that often scholars try to find answers for. Some muse that whether it was the alienation that he felt due to his Gnosticism and his conversion from Judaism. Some relate it to his loathing for his family, while others relate it to the shame that he felt of himself. Scholars speculate that why Kafka used dung beetle to be the final form of his protagonist Gregor. It realizes the feeling of being in an inescapable void that haunted Kafka’s mind until his death. It is often cited as a work that symbolizes alienation. This work is a suggestion of his defiance of the then accepted values and rejection to yield to them. Kafka had isolated himself and felt inferior due to his haunted thinking. Czech Jews were having a tough time due to growing anti-Semitism. Nazism was in vogue in Germany and its area of influence. It tells the miserable story of young Kafka, who was trying hard to become a successful businessman. It has been analyzed in historical and biographical contexts, which has revealed many facts regarding it. Scholars have referred to it as a work that ‘depict(s) the mercilessness of the world.’ It has been studied using psychoanalysis, political, and social criticism, and from the religious or philosophical point of view, it has never-exhaustingly yielded results. Its importance for the scholars lies in the fact that seen from any angle it never disappoints the scholars. Some consider it a feminist piece, some think of it as a tale of oppression told allegorically, some take it as an autobiographical piece. Scholars view it from different angles, and their opinions regarding it vary. It has attracted much scholarly attention because of its mysterious nature. It can also be called a magic-realism work. It has hugely impacted literature, and an example of it can be cited as a genre named ‘Kafkaesque.’ These are dystopian, nightmarish works that cause a helpless feeling of disgust in the reader.
It is a modernist work, which in the form of the novella, has created a nightmarish fictional world. It was completed in 1912, but the author didn’t publish it till 1915.
The Metamorphosis is Franz Kafka’s (1883-1924) masterpiece. Incongruous Relationship between Mind and Body.
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