Novelist Lance Olsen Casts an Eye on Kafka's Insect

Willamette Week | July 30, 2007
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.

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