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The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid's Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an 'ascending evolutionary scale' (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid's Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the...

The bold, powerful retelling of a classic tale from "The Twilight Zone."
Clinging to a desolate asteroid in the corner of a distant solar system is a small research facility, a lonely outpost of the autocratic Center Planet and home to only two beings: a human and an android. The close proximity of their work stimulates a myriad of new and passionate emotions between the two, and with the blossoming of an undeniable magnetism there quickly grows a fragile and dangerous attraction.
As they traverse the nebulae of heart, mind, and soul, the pressures of infatuation, intrigue, protocol,...

The Metamorphosis & Other Tales is a collection of six fictional stories that includes The Metamorphosis, The Magic Carpet and The Groovy Wallpaper, Butterfly, The Stranger, Customer Disservice and The Boston Stranger. Interweaving postmodernist narrative forms of intertextuality with realistic fiction, the author weaves a sumptuously rich tapestry of life contained within stories of the outsider, many of which might draw comparisons with the modernism of Kafka and Camus, though he undoubtedly still retains his definitely distinct artistic stylistic imprint.