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By David Rothman

metamorphosis2 Several weeks before April Fools’ Day, novelist-screenwriter Mark Leyner has scooped the world with the revelation, in a New York Times op-ed, that Franz Kafka was a con artist. The man-into-bug story of the The Metamorphosis is actually nonfiction, and furious academic feel conned. (Humor alert.)

Detail from Wikipedia: “Vladimir Nabokov, who was an entomologist as well as writer and literary critic, insisted that Gregor was not a cockroach, but a beetle with wings under his shell, and capable of flight—if only he had known it.”

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