Kafka, the new teen idol on TikTok

It must be said that the Austro-Hungarian author has always fascinated young people with his moments of dismay, his difficult relationships with his father and his descriptions of despair: “I slept, woke, slept, woke, miserable life.”

So certainly, no one has ever woken up one day transformed into a cockroach, but the feeling of being misunderstood described in Metamorphosis finds wide resonance among TikTok users.