The irony is: Kafka’s created man-turned-cockroach would never have been so brave. Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, into a well-off family in Prague, which at the time was the capital of Bohemia ...

If you've ever wanted to be a cockroach, now's your chance. Metamorphosis VR is a platformer that has you play as a cockroach in virtual reality.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

In it, Kafka’s famous character Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find himself transformed not into a cockroach, as he does in ‘The Metamorphosis,’ but into an adorable, fluffy kitten instead.

For some readers, the central conceit of Hage’s Cockroach immediately invites comparison to Kafka’s modern classic The Metamorphosis, in which a man named Gregor Samsa is suddenly (and ...

Kafka Lightens Up. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any ...

Have you ever read Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis and thought, “I sure want to try being that depressing cockroach”?Well, Metamorphosis VR, a virtual reality port of the 2020 indie ...

(Kafka was Jewish, and the grandson of a shochet, or kosher butcher.) Perhaps the Met Gala roach could be seen as a commentary on the polluting nature of high society culture, the way all the ...

Franz Kafka’s most famous story, “The Metamorphosis,” details one man’s change into a cockroach. I can sympathize: I’ve experienced my own transformation into a computer bug, ...

His parables aren’t supposed to make sense. Franz Kafka wasn’t a rabbi, exactly, but he is the high priest of 20th-century literature, and he also wrote in parables.In a brief one called “On ...

A new German miniseries about Franz Kafka is loose enough to have characters break the fourth wall, and bold enough to slip from scenes of the Czech writer's life to imagined scenes from his stories.