The story’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, is the quintessential Kafka anti-hero. He has worked himself to the point of utter exhaustion to pay off his parents’ debts, and his grotesque ...

A Japanese theater company did away with the bug motif altogether and made Gregor a robot. 11. "The Metamorphosis" was on David Cronenberg's mind when he filmed "The Fly" ...

Worn out from his life on the road as a traveling salesman, the barely awake Gregor Samsa thinks he’s caught a bug. He learns instead that he’s become one. More than 100 years on, Kafka’s ...

The Metamorphosis is a pretty funny story when you think about it. Viewed one way, a story about a man who wakes up to find he’s a bug is horrifying. Viewed another way, it’s hilarious [ PDF ].

The Metamorphosis is a story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning after having overslept and missed the early train that he was required to take for a business trip, ...

“The Metamorphosis” by Frank Kafka is a thought-provoking, phenomenal story, with surreal occurrences and absurd themes. Published in 1915, sitting as a mere 75 pages; it is truly a worthwhile read.

Gregor’s metamorphosis is not a dream or an allegory or a myth. It is a description of the inner feelings of a man who might as well be a bug. He experiences, as the story unfolds, ...

One reason the term “Kafkaesque’’ gets bruited about so much is that Franz Kafka gave form not just to his anxieties but to ours. Perhaps nowhere in the author’s work is this more ...

It's the setting, however, that's most intriguing about Metamorphosis so far. Gregor in the novel was a man-sized bug, but you're a bug-sized one in the game, which means that you're constantly ...

Gregor Samsa, the vermin: Reading Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ while Palestinians are killed Ironically, it was Kafka, a Jewish writer, who perhaps best understood the Palestinians ...