The representation of the modernist grotesque in Kafka's The metamorphosis and Dalcídio Jurandir's novel Chove nos campos de cachoeira

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the works Metamorphosis(1912) and Rain in the Fields of Waterfall (1941) or, rather, its protagonists - Gregor Samsa and euthanized, respectively, is an approach in its conceptualization of the grotesque more modernist the term “grotesque alien”. The purpose is not to make comparisons, much less identify influences between them. The similarity between them exists in the sense that they are authors of the twentieth century, which have captured well the atmosphere of change caused by the phenomenon of modernity and, in some form, let that fact reflected in his works, through his characters.