Three questions/requests

[Otto Boele]

>
> (1) One of my students asked about the Russian version of Ovid's
> "Metamorphosis." I assumed he meant Kafka's version, not a Russian
> one, esp. since he says it has to do with beetles. But am I missing
> something obvious here?  Besides some odd human regressions in "The
> Cave," and perhaps some of Sadur's stories, is there something we
> consider a Russian version of "Metamorphosis"?

I wouldn't call it THE Russian version of "Metamorphosis," but aren't there
beetles in Pelevin's "Zhizn' nasekomykh"?

Otto Boele

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