Immigration: Metamorphosis

Alienation Dept: By Ying Chen Les Editions du Boreal, 216 pages, $22.50, according to Montreal Gazette. In the latest novel from Ying Chen, Especes, a woman wakes up one day to find out that she has been turned into a cat. The plot of this French-language novel is reminiscent of that of Kafka's Metamorphosis replace cat with beetle , but the effect is not derivative. There is always more to be said on the theme of alienation and eSPECES - - - As reported in the news.
@t french language, kafka