1. A tortured, long-distance relationship inspired The Metamorphosis. In 1912, Kafka met Felice Bauer, an acquaintance of his friend Max Brod, at a dinner party in Prague. He began writing to ...

His most famous work, the novella "The Metamorphosis," is the basis for the Google Doodle. The drawing portrays a cockroach returning home from a day's work. In the novella, protagonist Gregor ...