What­ev­er else we take from it, Franz Kafka’s night­mar­ish fable The Meta­mor­pho­sis offers read­ers an espe­cial­ly anguished alle­go­ry on trou­bled sleep. Filled with ref­er­ences to sleep, dreams, and beds, the sto­ry begins when Gre­gor Sam­sa awak­ens to find him­self (in David Wylie’s trans­la­tion) “trans­formed in his bed into a hor­ri­ble ver­min.” After sev­er­al des­per­ate attempts … Con­tin­ue read­ing How Insom­nia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Cre­ative Process and the Writ­ing of The Meta­mor­pho­sis: A New Study Pub­lished in The Lancet