The becoming animal

From a Cockroach’s Point of View: The Metamorphosis of Perception in Kafka

The article offers a reading of the famous tale by Kafka focused on the consequences
triggered by the sudden transformation of Gregor Samsa into an insect. This event
constitutes the starting point of a shift that involves phases and components of
perception both of the self and of the world as well as the relations among the inner
and the external world, the most elementary awareness and feelings and the most
complex ones, which are affective, cognitive and related to interactions, expressed with

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