Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa
As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka's 1915 Metamorphosis was a long short story, with an unhappy beginning, middle, and end.In Kafka's Roach, Estrin (along with the Samsa's housemaid) has rescued Gregor from his dusty death under a couch in Prague, schooled him at a Viennese sideshow, and impelled him over the Atlantic to take a crucial role in American history in the twenties, thirties and forties. Gregor (six feet tall, and an ever-improving speaker of English) becomes part of FDR's brain trust, living in the White House kitchen until he is sent out to Los Alamos as the risk manager for the Manhattan Project. His life ends under the bomb tower at the Trinity test, melted into the New Mexico sands.This huge, comic novel is rich in historical detail, ridiculous situations, and the thoughtful musings of its narrator.
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Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa
As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka's 1915 Metamorphosis was a long short story, with an unhappy beginning, middle, and end.In Kafka's Roach, Estrin (along with the Samsa's housemaid) has rescued Gregor from his dusty death under a couch in Prague, schooled him at a Viennese sideshow, and impelled him over the Atlantic to take a crucial role in American history in the twenties, thirties and forties. Gregor (six feet tall, and an ever-improving speaker of English) becomes part of FDR's brain trust, living in the White House kitchen until he is sent out to Los Alamos as the risk manager for the Manhattan Project. His life ends under the bomb tower at the Trinity test, melted into the New Mexico sands.This huge, comic novel is rich in historical detail, ridiculous situations, and the thoughtful musings of its narrator.
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Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa

Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa

by Marc Estrin
Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa
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Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa

Kafka's Roach: The Life and Times of Gregor Samsa

by Marc Estrin

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As World War I began, Gregor Samsa, a good man turned-roach, burst into the world, and literature has never been the same. Kafka's 1915 Metamorphosis was a long short story, with an unhappy beginning, middle, and end.In Kafka's Roach, Estrin (along with the Samsa's housemaid) has rescued Gregor from his dusty death under a couch in Prague, schooled him at a Viennese sideshow, and impelled him over the Atlantic to take a crucial role in American history in the twenties, thirties and forties. Gregor (six feet tall, and an ever-improving speaker of English) becomes part of FDR's brain trust, living in the White House kitchen until he is sent out to Los Alamos as the risk manager for the Manhattan Project. His life ends under the bomb tower at the Trinity test, melted into the New Mexico sands.This huge, comic novel is rich in historical detail, ridiculous situations, and the thoughtful musings of its narrator.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781942515524
Publisher: Fomite
Publication date: 04/13/2017
Pages: 776
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.54(d)

About the Author

Marc Estrin's world line approximates a cross between a fungal mycelium and a Rube Goldberg device. Biologist, theater director, EMT, Unitarian minister, physician assistant, puppeteer, political activist, college professor, cellist and conductor, he is baffling, even unto himself.
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