Discover Franz Kafka's life and major works, including *The Metamorphosis*, *The Trial*, and *The Castle*. Explore his impact ...

Franz Kafka prohibited his publisher from portraying "the insect" on "The Metamorphosis"'s cover. Given the ambiguity over Gregor's new form, Kafka argued that its picture should not appear on the ...

On Sep. 19, 1908, the world premiere of Mahler’s "Symphony No. 7" took place in Prague. Among the audience was a 26-year-old ...

Franz Kafka has been dead for nearly 90 years, ... Bernofsky is one of the finest translators of German working today, and her new English version of Kafka’s most famous tale—of Gregor Samsa, ...

“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, translated by Susan Bernofsky (W.W. Norton, 128 pages, ... Gregor Samsa, and repulsed by him. The storyline sounds simple enough: ...

Gregor's rude awakening and metamorphosis parallels the journey of our dauntless narrator, Franz Kafka, incorporating some of his other surreal and iconic works, including his infamous 'Letter to ...

"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into…" What, exactly? Over the century since Franz Kafka published The Metamorphosis – and the original ...

Kafka left Gregor back in 1915, […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. ... Arguably the most disarming first sentence in 20th Century literature comes from Czech writer Franz Kafka, ...

That mindset makes a InVersion’s current production of “Gregor,” a devised Vaudevillian take on Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” the ideal vehicle for Steinberger as a director.

And if there's any doubt that Franz Kafka has supplanted George Orwell as the prophet of our times, ... For one thing, Gregor Samsa awakes to find he's a gigantic Ungeziefer, ...