"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams. he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." So begins "The Metamorphosis," the most famous story by Franz Kafka, who died a century ago this week. The story sent shock waves through the civilized world, for how could it be that in the safest and most intimate place – in his bed, in his room, "a proper human room" that "lay peacefully between its four familiar walls," a person could be transformed into a "dung beetle," as the family's charwoman sardonically calls him.

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Israelis Have No Kafka to Chronicle the Hostages' Harrowing Ordeal

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06.06.2024

"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams. he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." So begins........

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