Heeeelp !!!!!

Found this cockchafer on my veranda yesterday, helplessly trying to turn over. I couldn't resist to take a capture before turning him on his own feet again. :)

 

My daughter, when she saw the photo, told me it reminded her of the "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. I guess Kafka must have one of those in mind when he wrote that story in 1916. The story starts like that:

 

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.

 

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Link to the full version in English

 

Anyway, be warned that there is no happy ending in that Kafka story!

Unlke the story for this one which ended with a happy end. :)

Done