I did attempt to rewrite smaller parts, such as the first line of “The Metamorphosis”: “Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find he had turned into a beetle.” That sentence sounds natural, doesn't it?

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 ...