... metaphor made concrete, and his death is Kafka's despairing comment on language as a mode of communication. We can see very similar sentiments in nearly all of Kafka's texts. In "The Hunger Artist" we see the metaphor starved of all significance by the greedy needs of those who use it for their amusement; in "The Burrow" we have another concretization of the metaphor ... ...

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