Talk:The Burrow (short story)

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Wow, not a lot of discussion for possibly the greatest short fiction ever written. --R.

Are we sure this is really unfinished? The ending is about as perfect as you get. If Kafka planned an ending, maybe he was wise enough to think it futile and abandon it. "All remained unchanged," pretty much sums it up. --R.

The line under "Themes" is false. The creature mentions the use of its ears with reference to his ability to hear the noise later on in the story. Also, mentions of the creature's bulk, its difficulty squeezing through the labyrinthine passages near the opening of the burrow, its jaws holding dead rodents. There may be even more references. But based on these it seems difficult to justify the statement that the creature represents disembodied human reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.51.62 (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)


 * There are many other references to the fact that the story's narrator is in fact a mole or some other non-human being. Althroughout, the narrator mentions its own "paws", "maw", "tail", "fur coat", and such. --79.242.219.119 (talk) 23:52, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

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