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  2. The Metamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, [1] is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.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 (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to ...

  3. Gregor Samsa (band) - Wikipedia

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    Gregor Samsa is an American band from Virginia, United States, formed in 2000 and fronted by Champ Bennett. It takes its name from the main character of Franz Kafka's ...

  4. Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa - Wikipedia

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    Rather than being thrown away like trash, Gregor Samsa was secretly sold to a Viennese sideshow by the Samsas' chambermaid. He then met various figures like Wittgenstein, Spengler and Albert Einstein and witnessed American Prohibition, the Scopes trial, was involved in Alice Paul's feminist movement, encountered the Ku Klux Klan, and conferred with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ...

  5. Introducing Kafka - Wikipedia

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    The author relates Kafka's personality and various incidents in his life to the composition of his stories. For example, Kafka's complicated relationship with his family is linked to stories where the main character is an animal – notably The Metamorphosis , whose protagonist, Gregor Samsa, awakens to find himself transformed into a giant bug ...

  6. The Metamorphosis in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. 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 struggles to adjust to his new condition.

  7. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    Gregor Samsa: The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka: Gregor Samsa's transformation and the changes of attitudes towards him, except those in his immediate family, is a metaphor for the lived experience of physical and visible disability. The story's themes resonate with critical disability theory. [24] [25] 1843 Tiny Tim: A Christmas Carol: Charles ...

  8. Franz Kafka bibliography - Wikipedia

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    "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect". ( Willa Muir , 1933) Another virtually insurmountable problem facing translators is how to deal with the author's intentional use of ambiguous idioms and words that have several meanings which result in writings difficult to ...

  9. Iodine Recordings - Wikipedia

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    Iodine Recordings is an independent record label based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. [1] Iodine Recordings releases punk, hardcore, and indie rock music. It was once home to bands such as Brand New, Orange Island, Smoke or Fire (Jericho RVA), There Were Wires, Gregor Samsa, and more.