“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 ...

(JTA) – Franz Kafka was a devotee of Yiddish theater ... He who lies down in bed with dogs gets up with bugs.” “The Metamorphosis” famously revolves around a man who inexplicably ...

What happened to Gregor Samsa, the protagonist of Franz Kafka’s famous novella The Metamorphosis, when he discovered that he had turned into an insect one fine morning? His whole world fell apart.

Metamorphosis of an Author” at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

In fact, the dramatic changes of form occurring at insect metamorphosis are a consequence of the fact that insects live inside a stiff protective casing, or cuticle. As the insect develops and ...

Nowadays I’m quite contented with the fact that I’m a bit of an odd bug. Michael Sommer’s in charge of ... “Sommer’s World Literature to go”. Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is in fourth place in ...

His gaze seems to speak directly to the darkness of works like The Metamorphosis ... up as an insect, or suffer execution never knowing the crime you are accused of. The living Kafka, though ...

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.

In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (1915), music also serves ... even after transforming into an insect, continues to be deeply moved by it. Yet for his sister, music is fraught with anxiety ...