That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. For a good while he remained on his back and regarded his distant feet, his paucity of limbs, with consternation. A mere four, of course, and quite unmovable. His own little brown legs, for which he was already feeling some nostalgia, would have been waving merrily in the air, however hopelessly. He lay still, determined not to panic.
Murakami did the Metamorphosis reversal trick in his short story collection, Men without Women, and his version is considerably better than McEwan’s (to be fair McEwan may acknowledge this in the full version)
Why would McEwan write such a thing (as if The Metamorphosis is obsolete)? I don't see the point of this book... but I guess I'll just read the whole thing anyway.
Ian McEwan is no Kafka and has been going downhill for some time... but this is abysmal. A dull idea... no a terrible idea with no literary merit whatsoever... but above all petty....
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