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Jeff Somers tagged thirteen of the unluckiest characters in science fiction & fantasy, including:
Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
I don’t think it needs to be explained that waking up to discover that you’ve been transformed into a giant roach is bad luck of the highest order. When the story goes downhill from there, it really kind of redefines being born under a bad sign by a mind-blowing order of magnitude. When your death actually solves everyone else’s problems and no one mourns you for even a moment, you have crossed over into fields of bad luck no other living thing has ever inhabited.
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the other entries on the list.
The Metamorphosis is among f
ive books that changed Andy Griffiths,
Jason Diamond's fifty most essential works of Jewish fiction, and
Thomas Bloor's top ten tales of metamorphosis; Avi Steinberg says it is one of
six books every prison should stock.
--Marshal Zeringue
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