“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915), with Gregor Samsa’s transformation “into a gigantic insect”, forms an insightful comparative reading to the opening of Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), including Hal Incandenza’s seeming, unexplained catatonia. Wallace described Kafka’s fiction as conducting a “ra...

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Main Author: den Dulk, Allard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari 2021-03-01
Series:English Literature
Subjects:
Acknowledgment. Alienation. Communication. David Foster Wallace. Franz Kafka. Infinite Jest. Role of literature. Self-becoming. The Metamorphosis
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08/002

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http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08/002

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