A Report To An Academy by Franz Kafka
A captive ape recounts to an academic audience how, after being trapped and shipped to Europe, he taught himself to behave like humans through mimicry and performance in order to escape confinement and survive. He describes the painful learning process, the deliberate abandonment of his former life, and the trade-offs of gaining the appearance and habits of humanity while losing his past instincts and freedoms. His account becomes a bleak meditation on what it means to be “civilized,” the limits of assimilation, and whether outward conformity amounts to true transformation or merely another form of captivity.
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- Published
- 1917
- Nationality
- Austro Hungarian
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- Original Language
- German
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- Alternate Titles
- - Ein Bericht für eine Akademie
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