![]() As soon as I read ‘The Metamorphosis’ I knew it was true. ![]() ![]() A man who becomes a big bug… my brother couldn’t make that up if his life depended on it. “My brother is weird, but he doesn’t have that good an imagination. “I’m not sure how this happened,” said Mr. This detail unraveled, the whole story twists back on itself. The problem is, Kafka died in 1924 he could not have been interviewed for the piece. I took someone’s life and selfishly turned it into an enigmatic literary parable.” “I’m very alienated from myself, but that’s no excuse to lie. ![]() The account is 100 percent true.”īut when one checks the facts presented in the “coverage” of this revelation (really an op-ed piece), cracks appear immediately: Kafka simply wrote a completely verifiable, journalistic account of a neighbor by the name of Gregor Samsa who, because of some bizarre medical condition, turned into a ‘monstrous vermin.’ Kafka assured us that he’d made the whole thing up. It turns out that the giant cockroach in The Metamorphosis was Franz Kafka’s neighbor, who apparently suffered from “entomological dysplasia.” Said his editor, quoted in The New York Times: ![]()
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