Franz Kafka is one ... Kafka has become a meme on social media. This is particularly true of the vermin that protagonist Gregor Samsa mutates into in "The Metamorphosis." Young people exchange ...

The first page of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung) (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) “A Report for an Academy” (1917), cited in the section on “The Metamorphosis ...