“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed” (Fox: wait for it, wait for it) “into a monstrous vermin.”
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The opening sentence above is the beginning of Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella “Die Verwandlung” (typically translated to mean “The Metamorphosis”). While literary critics generally regard “Die Verwandlung” as one of the greatest works of fiction of the 20th century, it also serves as a fitting allegory and education vehicle helpful to us to understand the transformation of compliance obligations in progress at the OFCCP. While Gregor’s seeming overnight transformation into a “monstrous vermin” is certainly front and center, Kafka’s title for his famous novel invites the reader to consider all of the other ways that Gregor and the other characters are transformed in the course of the story. …
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