Insect Dreams:the Half Life Of Gregor Samsa

The Story

The metamorphosis of Kafka's Gregor Samsa from fabric salesman to cockroach was surely one of the momentous transformations of the modern world. Now, in Marc Estrin's astounding debut, Gregor undergoes yet another metamorphosis-one that propels him across the rocky and often ridiculous landscape of the early twentieth century. In these continuously surprising pages, Estrin's Gregor scuttles his way from Wittgenstein to Alice Paul to FDR, and emerges from it all as the very essence of modern conscience.