Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as an existential exercise.

Sisyphus Shrugged: Symbolic Alienation in The Metamorphosis The grotesque world is -- and is not -- our own world. The ambiguous way in which we are affected by it results from our awareness that the familiar and apparently harmonious world is alienated under the impact of abysmal forces, which break it up and shatter its coherence. -- Wolfgang Kayser Modernity has added irony to injury. The study of the humanities is intended to bridge something …

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