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Novelist Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insectnew

An enduring literary rumor has it that Gregor Samsa -- the young cloth-salesman who wakes up to find himself possessed of vaguely "numerous" legs and a hard-plated back -- is, specifically, a cockroach.
Willamette Week  |  Mark Cunningham  |  07-30-2007  |  Fiction

Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insectnew

Anxious Pleasures does for The Metamorphosis what Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead did for Hamlet: furnishes a familiar story with fresh dimensionality in order to creatively re-explore it.
Willamette Week  |  Mark Cunningham  |  07-25-2007  |  Fiction

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