One film in particular (and books, too) about Picasso told of how his first Vollard exhibit was a total failure—not one piece sold. Picasso, they said, was so dejected at the time that he felt his life would go the tragic way of Van Gogh.
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In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka shocked readers with a grotesque fable about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an insect, which dovetails with the Buddhist world view of rebirth, or transmigration of the soul.
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