Franz Kafka
Prague
Prague: The Old City
The Judgment The Sons Punishments
Father-son struggles James Joyce: Ulysses Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis Oedipus complex Repression
Harold Bloom The Anxiety of Influence
Novels The Trial The Castle Amerika
Die Verwandlung The Transformation The Transfiguration The Transsubstantiation
Samsa Kafka In Czech sám = alone + jsem = I am
ungeheures Ungeziefer enormous bug gigantic insect monstrous vermin
“It occurred to me … that [the artist] might want to draw the insect itself. Please, not that — anything but that! The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot even be shown in the distance.”
Aristotle Complication Dénouement