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...Rhapsody in Blue for Piano Four-Hand,” and Brahms’ “Viola Quintet in G major, Op. 111.” Sanders Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $46/37/26/17/8/5. (KAF)On Fire, Gregor Samsa, and Kayo Dot. Making a glorious return to the stage from time away, On Fire will open at 9:15 p.m., followed by Gregor Samsa at 10:15. Kayo Dot will greet the crowd with their rock-injected modern classical tunes at 11:15. T.T. the Bear’s Place. Tickets...
Whereas in the Kafka original, Gregor Samsa wakes up in the body of a “monstrous vermin,” Auslander’s character, an 18 year-old Lubavitcher yeshiva student named Motty Aranson, finds himself “transformed in his bed into a very large goy.” Motty’s struggle to come to terms with his “burly construction worker” body reaches its humorous high point when he unzips his jeans and exclaims, “So that’s a foreskin...
Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS. But to burden the story with greater weight is in fact to lessen it. The thump in the gut comes from the literal details...
...Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found, himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect... What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka...