Kafka has become a meme on social media. This is particularly true of the vermin that protagonist Gregor Samsa mutates into in "The Metamorphosis." Young people exchange Kafka quotes on TikTok and ...

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” Thus begins the most well known novella of the twentieth century, Die Verwandlung ...

In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (1915), music also serves as a symbol of oppression. The protagonist, Gregor Samsa, longs for music. He encourages his sister’s violin playing and ...

If Kafka’s leading man Gregor Samsa was surprised to wake up as an insect, he probably had nothing on Lot’s wife when the Old Testament matriarch was turned into a pillar of salt – the poor ...