American cartoonist Robert Crumb drew a comic adaptation of the novella, which is included in the 1993 book Introducing Kafka, an illustrated biography of Kafka also known as Kafka for Beginners, R. Crumb's Kafka, or simply Kafka.Lance Olsen's book, Anxious Pleasures: A Novel After Kafka, retells Kafka's novella from the points of view of those inside his family and out.Appel's Scouting for the Reaper contains a telling of the novella in which a rabbi attempts to arrange a "proper Jewish burial" for Gregor. The 2022 film Kuthiraivaal, takes some inspirations of The Metamorphosis with the protagonist who wakes up with a horse tail and not by becoming a cockroach.Max reads the first sentence of The Metamorphosis aloud, and promptly declares that it is too good. The 1967 film The Producers, along with its stage musical adaptation, feature a scene in which Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom search for the worst possible play they can mount in order to commit investment fraud.In the 2006 animated film Flushed Away, a stove falls through the floor of a house to show an annoyed cockroach sitting behind it, reading a French translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
It won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. The short is also notable for a number of Kafkaesque moments. The 1995 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life by Peter Capaldi tells the story of the author trying to write the opening line of The Metamorphosis and experimenting with various things that Gregor might turn into, such as a banana or a kangaroo.A 2017 Sinhala feature film Swaroopa by Dharmasena Pathiraja.A 2004 Spanish language short film by Fran Estévez.A 1987 television film of a stage adaptation by Jim Goddard, starring Tim Roth as Gregor Samsa.A 1977 animated short film by Caroline Leaf.There are numerous film versions of the story, including: The novella has been recreated, referenced, or parodied in various popular culture media.
One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The Metamorphosis ( German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.
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