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349 Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)

The History of Literature

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Kafka at His Best, but Also His Bleakest

Kafka is at his most beautiful, but also his bleakest in the film. The sister brings him a wide selection of things to seeot what he wants to eat. And then she turns on him, and she can't bear the sight of him - that's heart breaking. I think you could look at it and say, this is all about wwe walk past the starving man’s sleeping on the sidewalk. But i think you can also look at it as recognizing how much pain there is not recognized by us. We're all in this kind of miserable state yet we still act like well, if you get a little raise off some day,  that should be

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