Part I
Gregor's first thought is missing the 5 a.m. train, not his transformation — comedy and horror inseparable.
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From Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The novella established the template for the "Kafkaesque": an impossible premise treated with bureaucratic seriousness, anxiety as the dominant emotional key.
Part I
The chief clerk's accusations of unreliability shouted through the door while Gregor lies on his back — bureaucracy meeting metamorphosis.
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