Roach Rhino Redux: Revisiting Parallels in Kafka and Ionesco

Fifty years after doing a college thesis comparing Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis" and Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros," Ethan Hirsh takes a lively look at how the two works have withstood the test of time, with surprising results from around the world-- new adaptations, new media, and other reasons for their ongoing and growing popularity, including the disturbing developments in politics. The author's original thesis from 1967 is included in its entirety and endures as a valid and entertaining work of literary criticism, analyzing how the two writers used the device of physical transformation to achieve their parallel goals. Hirsh supplements his recent research with a "Coda for Conservation" that examines the dire plight of endangered rhinos in the wild.
All sale proceeds (after bookseller commissions) are pledged to support rhino conservation.