A 2017 Sinhala feature film Swaroopa by Dharmasena Pathiraja.A 2004 Spanish language short film by Fran Estévez.A 1987 television film of a stage adaptation by Jim Goddard, starring Tim Roth as Gregor Samsa.A 1977 animated short film by Caroline Leaf.There are numerous film versions of the story, including: The novella has been recreated, referenced, or parodied in various popular culture media.

One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. He was also played by Richard E Grant in Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, written and directed by Peter Capaldi.The Metamorphosis ( German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. He won 'Best Actor' at the BBC Audio Drama Awards for the part. ( COMIC: The Broken Man)ĭavid Tennant starred as Franz Kafka in Murray Gold's BBC Radio audio play Kafka the Musical. When naming great minds who had worked in Prague, the Eleventh Doctor noted that Kafka wrote there. On the Vipod Mor, she at first compared the people there to be like characters in a Kafka story, but later decided it was more like a story written by a psychotic Lewis Carroll. She had found them fascinating as well as highly disturbing. When Peri Brown had been at school, she had spent a term studying the works of Franz Kafka. ( PROSE: The Cabinet of Light)Īfter Fitz Kreiner's trial for supposedly bombing St Anthony's Chapel, he described the predicament he'd found himself in as 'some Kafka-esque parody of justice.' ( PROSE: The Domino Effect) He had, in fact, regenerated into a new man. Detective Honoré Lechasseur brought him up after stating that it would seemingly be impossible for the Doctor to be 'magically transformed' into her, a woman. ( AUDIO: Whodunnit?)Įmily Blandish had not read any of Kafka's works. Dora was also invited to attend Kafka in his final hours. He also had a brief encounter with the Fourth Doctor, who came to their rescue, as well as to retrieve his TARDIS, which River borrowed without permission.Īfter River left Kafka almost at the deathbed, his friend Mr Brod came to visit him and was grappling with the dilemma whether to fulfil Kafka's wish to burn all his writing or not. Kafka used Prague's St Vitus Cathedral as an architectural model in the construct. In order to achieve this, he was plugged into the TARDIS's telepathic circuits. In the 1920s in Vienna shortly before his death, Kafka constructed a complex virtual narrative for River Song to help her fight against the Discordia. Some of his works included The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and The Trial.

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