Could he be an animal if music moved him so deeply? He felt as though a path were opening toward the unknown nourishment he had longed for.
Franz Kafka
New English translation prepared for this collection from the German original.
Art & Imagination
A quote by Franz Kafka
From the source
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), Part III.
German text: Die Verwandlung, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1917 edition. First published in 1915.
The narrator describes Gregor listening to his sister play the violin.
Original German
War er ein Tier, da ihn Musik so ergriff? Ihm war, als zeige sich ihm der Weg zu der ersehnten unbekannten Nahrung.