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For metamorphosis, see Judith K. Krabbe (1989), The Metamorphosis of Apuleius; Franz Kafka (1915), Metamorphosis; and Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 play Rhinoceros. In translations of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, “Ungeziefer” is given variously as dung-beetle or cockroach. Cockroaches would seem to be more suited to urban bureaucracy.