the metamorphosis - kafka (1915)

i am gobsmacked by the analysis J2 produces. my baby! do they read such, and do they analyse such these days? in my time we read lady precious stream and discussed marital fidelity.

back to kafka. horrific piece of work, this. he uses the simplest most mundane language to describe an awful irredeemable process of depersonalization. do you find the ending abrupt, J2 asks. certainly not, i say. as the story unfolds the end cannot come quickly enough because what is happening is so dreadful. death is seductively logical when life is an ugly unwelcome atrocity.