Abstract
Kafka’s animal stories, especially “The Metamorphosis” and “A Report to an Academy,” have been of great interest to the interdisciplinary field of animal studies. A number of works in literary animal studies have used the complexity of Kafka’s stories to discuss such topics of current interest as crossing the human-animal divide, what we can and cannot know of what it is to be another animal, how writing from the point of view of a nonhuman animal can both provide possible exits from the solipsism of the modern or bourgeois subject and also shift our own understanding of human subjectivity, ontology, epistemology, and limitation; also, how thinking about these stories, and animal literature in general, can serve the goal of decentering anthropocentrism.1
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DeKoven, M. (2016). Kafka’s Animal Stories: Modernist Form and Interspecies Narrative. In: Herman, D. (eds) Creatural Fictions. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_2
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