The perpetual oscillates between the natural and the extraordinary, the individual and the universal, the tragic and every day, the absurd and the logical, are found throughout his work and give it both resonance and meaning.
In this fundamental ambiguity lies Kafka’s secret. But it is also the product of that incalculable amazement man feels at being conscious of the beast he becomes effortlessly. ”Metamorphosis, in turn, certainly represents the horrible imagery of an ethic of lucidity. In his critical essay on Kafka, titled ‘Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka,’ Camus has this to say concerning The Metamorphosis:
The similarity between the two works may not be coincidental Kafka is one of the major influences on Camus’s work. The main theme of both stories is the idea that the world is absurd and that the norms of society and the events that happen in the world are arbitrary. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Stranger by Albert Camus are both existential works which explore the themes of alienation, emotional detachment and the seeming absurdity of the human condition.
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