iamjudgedredd's reviews
261 reviews

Short sweet 'horror'. The Pattern is torturous.

The message of this novella is not particularly complicated or subtle, but there is power in the simplicity of the pearl.

This is one of those novellas where if Kafka had prescribed specific reasoning behind the metamorphosis it would have lost a lot of it's value. I feel like doing so would turn it into a cheap piece of 'anti this' or 'anti that' propaganda. Fortunately he had had the foresight to produce a simple, yet powerful piece that is laden with suggestion and interpretative potential.