Google Doodle celebrates Franz Kafka with a cockroach
Google's latest Doodle is a bit buggy, but not in the usual way.
Displaying a giant hard-working cockroach walking through the door, the Doodle pays tribute to famed German-language author Franz Kafka, who was born on July 3, 1883. The bug refers to one of Kafka's most unusual works, namely "The Metamorphosis," the tale of a traveling salesman who was one day turned into a big bug, typically thought to be a cockroach.
As an English translation of the book puts it: "One morning, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his troubled dreams, he found himself … Read more