On the surface, Franz Kafka appears to be almost nakedly autobiographical ... A man transformed into a bug in "Metamorphosis". The condemned prisoner of "In the Penal Colony" who has his sentence ...

Nowadays I’m quite contented with the fact that I’m a bit of an odd bug. Michael Sommer’s in charge of the ... “Sommer’s World Literature to go”. Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” is in fourth place ...