In a scandal that's sending shock waves through both the publishing industry and academia, the author Franz Kafka has been revealed to be a fraud.

" 'The Metamorphosis' - purported to be the fictional account of a man who turns into a large cockroach - is actually non-fiction," according to a statement released by Kafka's editor, who spoke only on the condition that he be identified as E.

oh yes that little thing called imagination -- making strange -- ostranenie from Victor Shklovsky - the joys of narrative - take the world we know and twist it -- oh i'm sorry how very old fashioned of me it's just that i'm linked into and in love with a literary and oral tradition that probably predates agriculture and goes back to africa and our hunter gatherer roots

A bug's life. Really - International Herald Tribune