For me, The Metamorphosis was not very illuminating. However, I very much liked Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephi

For me, The Metamorphosis was not very illuminating. However, I very much liked Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_the_Singer,_or_the_Mouse_Folk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_the_Singer,_or_the_M... which I thought had very rich and subtle layers of complexity. I also enjoyed "The Great Wall of China" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wall_of_China_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wall_of_China_(short... ) , even if I didn't quite understand it completely at the time that I read it, because it felt and reminded me very much like a Borges short story with it's detail and speculation.