A book about courage, self-worth, taking flight, and the freedom that waits within us – by Thorsten Lux.

„As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.“

Thus begins Kafka’s „The Metamorphosis“ – with disgust, isolation, and a man who becomes a burden to himself and his family. „Flying“ begins with the same sentence structure, the same awakening – and then takes a different path.

This narrator, too, wakes one morning transformed: helpless, in pain, unable to move. He, too, inhabits a body he never chose – a body that feels wrong, heavy, exposed – until he learns to see it for what it truly is: Abdomen too thick, legs too thin, face too greenish, as others have long told him and as he has long believed himself. Yet where Gregor Samsa increasingly withdraws from the world, this narrator sets out into it.

This parable invites the reader to learn flying anew – not with wings, but with thoughts. On his journey, the narrator encounters beings that feel at once wondrous and familiar: mirrors of human traits, teachers of the everyday.

An earthworm, who shows him how to think without boasting.
A beaver, who lives responsibility without harshness.
A spider, who knows fear but not resignation.
A wasp, whose sting defends a wounded heart.
A beetle, who embodies joy in life without naivety.
A rat, with unsparing clarity.
And a butterfly, who shows him what trust without control can mean.

In the encounters with them, a quiet understanding grows – about fear and courage, about self-doubt and confidence, about the art of no longer hiding from oneself. Each meeting leaves its mark – until the decisive moment is not the first flight, but a single, silent thought that the narrator for the first time admits to himself: Greenish, my eye.

„Flying“ is the other metamorphosis – not the story of a man who transforms into an insect and breaks under it, but of a being who transforms itself by ceasing to see itself through others‘ eyes. He learns to fly not to escape, but to arrive.

Following the narrative, the book portrays each of the figures the narrator encounters – as independent character studies that reveal just how much each single encounter truly carries within it.

A poetic parable about change, truthfulness, and the quiet freedom that dwells in every new beginning.

Flying – Another Transformation.
There is yet more sky to fly in.

Accompany the narrator – dare the flight!

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Paperback · 9,99 €
ISBN 9783695709434