I suggest that the authors projected the chilling imagery of dissolving bodies with an aim similar to that of modern writers of grotesque literature it speaks to the ambivalent awareness of human mortality. The Metamorphosis (1915) is considered modernist fiction, widely read for its enduring themes of alienation and self-loathing. Kafka has attracted the attention of psychoanalysts and. His writings have been seen in the context of existentialism, Jewish mysticism and as a warning of the advent of totalitarianism. This makes the liturgical works into texts about the churchgoers’ decay. This article examines the short story Metamorphosis by the enigmatic Czech writer Franz Kafka, whose work has been the subject of extensive critical discussion. At the same time his body is just as ordinary and human as any of the people who heard the macabre stories. Lazarus actually appears as a grotesquely dynamic corpse. Scholars are currently rediscovering the subtleties of Byzantine literary composition, but religious texts are still largely viewed as simple, didactic and naïve. Metamorphosis, Kafkas masterpiece of unease and black humour, is one of the twentieth centurys most influential works of fiction, and is accompanied here. I argue that we should resist the temptation of a simplistic reading of the Byzantine liturgical past. The extraordinary choreography captures the devastation of Gregor Samsas transformation into a monstrous insect and his familys struggle to accept him. His death and reinvigoration surely point towards the resurrection of Christ yet the detailed and morbid displays which these liturgical texts create suggest that the authors worked with more complex pallets. It explores the way in which the authors described the disintegration and reintegration of Lazarus’ body. Kafka was born in Prague and spent many years working for an insurance company. This article surveys late ancient liturgical compositions for this feast. The Metamorphosis is a short story written in German by Franz Kafka in 1915. The day before Palm Sunday, early Christians celebrated the biblical figure of Lazarus.
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