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Essay Archive - Comparison of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and Dali's "The Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
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 ....
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