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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class Jewish family in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His unique body of writing - much of which is incomplete and was published posthumously - is among the most influential in Western literature. His novella, The Metamorphosis (1915), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal and bureaucratic world.
The criticism that Nina Pelikan Straus put on the metamorphosis is completely about feminist issues. In her article “Transforming Frank Kafka’s Metamorphosis�, she concentrates on how Kafka’s language is ambiguous which works in favor of feminism.
Straus indicates that each literary critic has their own slant to their criticism which is a “literary Rorschach test ……..� Like Leadbeater, Straus believes that the story is more about Grete’s metamorphosis than Gregor’s. She “blossom� ‘s into something......

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