The Metamorphosis of Kafka's Gregor Sampson

Kafka's a figure of Gregor Sampson is kind of tormented by the expectation of the cruelty of the working life. He wakes up one day to be turned into a gigantic bug, and then all this family can think it's what you're not going to work now. And I think the metamorphosis is the ultimate of capitalist nightmares in the sense that you've called in for a sicky, but they come and knock on your door anyway.

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