Reading playlist The Metamorphosis
You are still yourself inside. No one will ever know.
Artists and music for this book
Leoš Janáček
Franz Schubert
Arvo Pärt
Why this music
The music stays close and interior — string chamber works, late-Romantic piano, the occasional scrape of a solo violin that mirrors Grete's playing in the text. Textures are spare and slightly airless, the way the flat feels once Gregor stops leaving his room. As the family's tenderness curdles into exhaustion, the harmonic warmth drains from the room too.