Fearing that an illustrator might propose to draw Gregor, Kafka wrote to his publisher, “Not that, please not that! … The insect itself cannot be depicted. It cannot even be shown from a ...

Contrition haunted Kafka, or it haunted his protagonists ... an extent that turns their death or their transformation into an insect into a likely and welcome prospect. In ‘The Judgement ...

It preserves a Kafka wracked by pain, barely able to eat, near to death. Little wonder that the look in those eyes fits so well with a world in which, suddenly, you can wake up as an insect ...

Delve into Franz Kafka's books and literary works, exploring themes of existentialism, alienation, and absurdity. Discover the genius behind modern classics.

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” Thus begins the most well known novella of the twentieth century, Die Verwandlung ...

I hope that her transformation doesn't make her reliant on the family, even if she does become an ineffective insect. Apart from “The Metamorphosis”, what is your favorite novel by Franz Kafka? Or if ...

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is widely accepted as a high watermark of strangeness. The story of a man who wakes up one morning and discovers he is an insect is uniquely baffling and creepy.