The word “vermin” is interesting because we usually associate it with “I am like a vermin”, but Kafka skips that step and simply discusses “vermin”. He begins with the beetle, describing it so ...

Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis describes the feelings of a travelling salesman awakening one morning in the body of a beetle; it never resolves how and why this happened. The focus is rather on how ...

The beetles appear in another squiggly exhibit ... The shorter masterpieces by Kafka such as The Judgment and A Hunger Artist also give the viewer a sense of the visual richness, not just the ...