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Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"


The painting that I chose to compare to the novel Metamorphosis, by
Franz Kafka, was painted in 1937 by Salvatore Dali. Dali is an established
Surrealist painter, who, like Kafka, explored his own psyche and dreams in his
work. Dali invented a process, called the "paranoiac critical method", which is
used in this painting, to assist his creative process. As Dali described it,
his aim in painting was "to materialize the images of concrete irrationality
with the most imperialistic fury of precision...in order that the world of
imagination and of concrete irrationality may be as objectively evident...as
that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality."1
The rich landscape, seems to be limitless in detail. Dali rendered
every detail of this landscape with precise accuracy, striving to make his
paintings as realistic as possible.
In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful young......

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