Meeting Love at its Infancy : Thoughts after reading 'Samsa in Love' by Haruki Murakami
Picture credit: The Time Samsa in love is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and is translated by Ted Goossen. It is a part of Murakami's collection of short stories called 'Desire' published by Vintage Minis. In his story, the character of Samsa is based on the character known as Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's very popular novel Metamorphosis. Kafka's novel revolves around a man (Gregor Samsa) who wakes up one day to find out that he has turned into a moth. It is a brilliant work around the idea of existentialism. However, in Murakami's story, Samsa wakes up to find out that he has turned into a human from a moth. It's the other way around. The initial sensations of both these Samsas are the same. They both find it difficult to adjust to a foreign body, taking in the consciousness of a totally different being. Both know nothing of how they come to be in this way. Gregor Samsa had his own set of ordeals which ended in ...