"So many people feel paralysed, just like Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka's book The Metamorphosis ... "Gregor, who wakes up transformed into a cockroach, is totally prevented from changing his ...

Have you ever asked your loved ones if they would still love you if you were a cockroach? Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is considered a 20th-century literary masterpiece. Often compared ...

Kafka answers: The sages don’t mean that ... The poet and translator Michael Hofmann settled on “cockroach”—a mistake. Vladimir Nabokov, who knew his arthropods, demonstrated conclusively ...

But there are other kinds of stories, too. For example, there are Franz Kafka stories: Guy wakes up and finds he has transformed into a cockroach. Then everything gets worse. Then the guy dies.