"He's no more hope that he's going to be integrated into his family. He's not even a thing, you know, he's not even the brother any more." "His opinion that he must, by all means disappear was possibly even more emphatic than that of his sister," she says. 'I don't know why, like a bug dying does is our bug'
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What kind of a story is this? A Marxist or religious allegory? A work of weird fiction? A family drama? A dark comedy? Why does a story about a man who turns into a giant insect get under our skins so much?
Plus a study that links insomnia to our fear of death. What a cheerful summer episode! (Actually we're fairly proud of this one... As always we suggest reading the text before you listen or soon after).
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