Comparison Of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" And Dali's "The Metamorphosis Of Narcissus"
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Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of
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. ....
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.... love with his own reflection, and then drowned while trying to embrace
himself. His body was never recovered, but a flower, which was named after
him was. The left side of this painting shows the kneeling Narcissus,
outlined by the craggy rocks of what could only be Cape Creus's. On the
right side of the painting, the scene has morphed into a more idyllic and
classical scene, in which the kneeling Narcissus has become the statue
of a hand, holding a cracked egg, from which emerges ....
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