Franz Kafka
- A Hunger-Artist
Over the last few decades, the interest in hunger-artists has suffered a marked decline. While it may once have been profitable to put on great public spectacles under one's own production, this is completely impossible today. Times really have changed.
Franz Kafka
- Metamorphosis
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed. He lay on his tough, armoured back, and, raising his head a little, managed to see - sectioned off by little crescent-shaped ridges into segments - the expanse of his arched, brown belly, atop which the coverlet perched, forever on the point of slipping off entirely.