QUOTE OF THE DAY - TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016

Today's Quote of the Day comes to us courtesy of German writer and famed twentieth-century Modernist Franz Kafka from his 1915 masterpiece "Die Verwandlung" (better known to the English-speaking world as "The Metamorphosis"):

"Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for."

- Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis First Edition, 1916

Suggested Reading (External Links):

• The Metamorphosis (at Project Gutenberg - which you are going to want to bookmark if you haven't already!)

• A fascinating perspective and in-depth analysis of music as it relates to the writings of Franz Kafka (at The Guardian)
  
• Franz Kafka, life and works (at Wikipedia)
  
  
• Understanding Modernist Literature (also at Wikipedia)
  
  
• A present-era Operatic take on a Kafka short story (inspired): Café Kafka by Spanish composer Francisco Coll (at The Royal Opera House)

-Rose.

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