Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

LA METAMORFOSIS by Franz Kafka

68 reviews

kate_has_book_thoughts's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism and Chronic illness

kers_tin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sadiaa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, and Abandonment

pitedavid's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Boken ger ett intressant perspektiv på hur man kan känna under ett liv vars allt man gör är beroende av ett job. Han är slav till kapitalismens system och blir utbränd. Han känner sig inte som en människa och går djupare och djupare.

Detta är ett intresant perspektiv med många olika tolkningar. Översattarna verkar respektera Kafkas visiob för boken och den läses så.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Ableism

criticalgayze's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Is it stating the obvious to say this is a weird little book?

I picked this up out of curiosity after reading Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man, and I found that I largely appreciated this story about a man whose radical transformation allows his family of societal rejects to come into their own.

I don't understand its place in the literary firmament, but I appreciate having read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Confinement

grace_cr1's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

perth_is's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Vomit

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, and Death

vithelovers's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, and Abandonment

lizardgod's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

• Negative one star on personal review
• Personal review is as following:
  • 'I hated this story. Woe is me, a poor man. I just work and now I am bug. I must now reflect as everyone shoes me away as they once were afraid to. Oh yeah and my sister is mighty fine if you know what I mean. Gross.'

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment