Cosa dire di un libro dalla trama arcinota come questo? La mia emotività si è dilaniata tra due stati: l'empatia e la compassione verso Gregor e la comprensione del disgusto dei familiari. Cosa avremmo fatto noi se un nostro caro si fosse trasformato in uno scarafaggio gigante i cui pensieri ci sono incomprensibili? E quindi non ci è dato sapere se questo essere comprenda il contesto circostante e le nostre parole? Siamo sicuri che ci saremmo comportati diversamente? A me ricorda molto l'atteggiamento verso un anziano ormai non autosufficiente. Familiari costretti a turni oltre a quelli lavorativi, a pagare badanti o case di cura, a prendersi cura di un essere che ricorda vagamente la persona amata. La morte del parente coincide inesorabilmente con una sensazione di sollievo. Il lutto purtroppo si è già stemperato nella degenza.

This graphic novel is visual interpretation of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis is a story about the transformation of a traveling salesman into a gross, monstrous and repelling insect. It is also a story of metamorphosis of the attitude of the family when the bread-winner turns into an invalid.

It is no easy task writing graphic novel based on one of the most famous stories of Franz Kafka. Peter Kuper has managed to create vivid, effective and engaging visual interpretation of "Metamorphosis" while still retaining the gore, shock and kafkaesque cynicism of the original story.

The story also reminds me of a story in Indian mythology about a ruthless robber who is once asked by a sage why he does what he does. When he says he does it for his family, the sage asks him to go and ask his family whether they will take responsibility of his actions in afterlife. To his shock, his family refuses the responsibility for his actions. From then onwards, he leaves his shady profession and eventually ends up writing the famous epic The Ramayana of Valmiki. Although lacking the tragic, fatalistic and hopeless end, the story tells the same futility of selfless attachment anything and anyone.

Možno keby toto čítam mladšia tak by som dala lepšie hodnotenie ...
Možno keby toto čítam pred komiksovou verziou Premeny a Procesu, dala by som asi o jednu viac ....
Ale nie, toto bolo sklamanie.

Kafkova Premena je úžasný príbeh - Každý v ňom nájde niečo iné, je to plné absurdit a metafor a už len samotná premena na chrobáka pôsobi na čitateľa často nepríjemne.

Lenže v tomto komikse je taký peknučký chrobáčik, ktorého nemá nikto rád. Keby nečítam nekomiksovu Premenu predtýmto, tak z tejto vôbec nepoberem to, čo vyjadruje pôvodná verzia. Je to miestami aj dosť zmätené, repliky postáv sú nedotiahnuté. Kresba je taká - akože fajn dá sa. Netvrdím, že mi nebolo chrobáčika ľúto, to áno, ale tak isto som sa cítila, keď som čítala Krtečka. Toto mal byť Kafka, tak kde je?!

Read for my Language Arts Class...

Meh, this was okay. I don't have much to say about this one.