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Boab's God: Welsh's Kafkaesque Metamorphosis and Latent Agency
The provided text from "Philosophics" offers a comparative analysis of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Irvine Welsh's short story The Granton Star Cause. It examines how both narratives portray alienation and metamorphosis, but highlights key differences in their depiction of agency. While Kafka's character, Gregor Samsa, experiences a transformation that leads to inertia and deeper alienation, Welsh's Boab Coyle develops a "god" of vengeance that represents his latent agency and repressed desires. The article uses Critical Theory lenses from thinkers like Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Bataille…
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