It won’t take you an entire afternoon to read one of the great short stories of our time. All you need is an hour and a little curiosity—and if that curiosity is even the slightest bit entomological, even better for you.
Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is the brief but impactful tale of a traveling salesman who awakes one morning to find he’s been transformed into a giant insect. Kafka uses this literal dehumanization as a vehicle to explore some of the thorniest parts of the human condition: rejection, betrayal, social isolation, and emotional dehumanization.
So profound is Kafka’s footprint that he’s one of the few authors whose name is use...
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