Cuando el monstruo soy Yo. Metamorfosis, abyección y epifanía en La metamorfosis de Kafka y La pasión según G. H. de Lispector

Abstract

The Metamorphosis from Franz Kafka and The Passion According to G.H. from Clarice Lispector denounce the solitude of humanity, the alienation, the social injustice, the destruction and reveal the hopelessness and the harsh endeavor of surviving of for the man of the XX (20th) century, while Modernity promises the man to achieve human happiness through progress, however, “All that is solid melts into air” (Berman, 1982). The writer faced against that excess of harsh reality narrates deep within introspection and the flow of consciousness; both are employed as strategies to survey the cruel and ruthless world of alienating paraphernalia of scaling war, the dehumanization, the loss of references and the persecution over the question of origin in the violent and totalitarian Germany. Both writing reveal us conflicts, feelings and emotions, from where each of these novels approach metamorphosis. Although this reminiscence to the transformation of bodies into someone who is other, it appears as an underlining the notion of monster and presents the question of animality and the abject from a view of the otherness. The transformation that suffers the body of Gregorio Samsa and the vision of the (ab)normal, between the distorted and fantastic reality pose the envision of the sinister, the ominous, the degradation of repugnancy and the abject in that intermediate and induced epiphany metamorphosis. In The Passion According to G.H. the protagonist of the novel from Lispector, the vision of the cockroach that expectantly overlooks that later the sculptor exterminates in a premeditated way, produce fear and repulsion at the beginning; dead is part of the devouring ritual in spite of the disgusting feeling, transforms the abject in an act that induced epiphany, of revelation and knowledge: “la vida me es” (Lispector, 2010 189) (“life is itself for me”).