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 ...

Metamorphosis, created by the studio Ovid Works, is inspired by the Kafka story of the same name. There's a bit of the plot of The Trial woven into the story as well. The main character, Gregor, finds ...

‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The famous first line of this haunting tale is hard to forget and painful to ...

This essay is adapted from the afterword to the author’s new translation of “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka. Kafka’s celebrated novella The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) was written a century ...

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.

How did you first get involved in the world of theatre? As a wee lad in the Church Christmas Paegent, I played Caesar Augustus reading a proclamation. I wore a bathrobe and looked sternly at a scroll.