The metamorphosis

Kafka presents to us the incident of the physical "transformation" of his hero, Gregor Samsa, in the first sentence of his long story, "The Metamorphosis": "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed, in his bed, into a giant insect." Of course, such transformations are among the themes of myths, tales, and stories (fantastical and others), and they have existed, without a doubt, in the vast majority of human cultures. There are well-known literary cases of this type of transformation, for example, in the stories of the book "Transformations" by Ovid, as well as in "The Golden Ass" by Apuleius, and in many stories of "One Thousand and One Nights," to name but a few. Dar Al-Jamal Number of pages 103