Google Doodle Celebrates Franz Kafka's 130th Birthday with 'Metamorphosis' Picture
Today's Google Doodle is a giant man-like cockroach walking through a front door in honor of legendary author Franz Kafka's 130th birthday.
"Metamorphosis," a well known short story about Gregor Samsa is about a man who wakes up one morning to find he has turned into a giant insect, and has no real clue as to why.
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin," the story starts.
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Telegraph reports the image of the cockroach would defy the wishes of Kafka.
"The insect itself is not to be drawn. It is not even to be seen from a distance," the author said to the publisher of the book wanting to keep the bug to the imagination.
Curiously the doodle of the Czech born author is available everywhere except for the United Kingdom and also scholars are wondering why that particular work was chosen, reports the Guardian.
"The Trial and Metamorphosis are full of their own depth, and their own complicated sadness, but they don't strike the heart with the same poignancy as Kafka's final, unfathomable novel," wrote William Burrows of the Guardian in defense of "Metamorphosis" being chosen and also "The Trial" being a good second choice.
"Kafka's work is a perfect illustration of Freud's conception of the uncanny as the familiar re-presented to us in unfamiliar guise," Burrows continued.
The author was only 40 years old when he died of Tuberculosis, and his form of story telling has become known as Kafkaesque.
