No one could possibly have a crappier day than Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has transformed into a beetle and spends the rest of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” reconciling his new body ...

Editor’s Note: Franz Kafka was born on this day, July 3, 1883. Anne Roiphe examines the prescience of the author’s “Metamorphosis.” ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found ...

It has become fashionable of late to claim that Franz Kafka is overrated as an author, even though his slender body of work stands as one of the most influential of the 20th century. Indeed, his ...

What would you do if you woke up one morning and discovered that during the night you had turned into a large, ugly insect, replete with a hard shell and creepy multiple legs? Would you immediately ...

As literature nerds awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, they found themselves transformed into the probable recipients of a trove of Franz Kafka’s writing. This was no dream. Comparing the ...

There’s a new VR game studio in town called Black Sun Productions, and they’ve announced their ambitious debut project: Metamorphosis VR. Ovid Works first launched Metamorphosis – based on Franz Kafka ...

In 1915, Franz Kafka published what would be his most famous work: a curious novella called The Metamorphosis, about a traveling salesman who wakes up one morning to discover he’s a huge, hideous bug.

“Would you still love me if I were a worm?” No, absolutely not. That is, at least, what The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka suggests. It is a question that may sound absurd but carries deeper ...

Franz Kafka, a Prague-born writer, navigated a challenging upbringing and a demanding day job while pursuing his passion for ...

David Cronenberg begins his introduction to Susan Bernofsky’s new translation of “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka (W.W. Norton: 126 pp., $10.95 paper) by raising an unexpected comparison: “I woke up ...