That is what this article claims to be about "The metamorphosis "…
How sad if it is true … 
Can’t be true. Not strange enough.
A salesman turned into a roach? Isn’t usually the other way around?
That should be in Onion.
Hint #1-It’s a “news story”, but it’s in the Op-Ed section.
Hint #B-It’s written by “Mark Leyner” who “is a novelist and screenwriter.”
Uh-oh, I think someone may have whooshed a moderator. At least I hope that’s the case.
It’s pretty clearly a satirical response to recent news of literary fraud.
Note the laughing smilie in the OP.
Kafka was a massive fraud. He was actually a very cheerful and fun-loving guy who adopted a mopey public persona to sell books.
Man, the author of that needs to read more Onion articles. That was not a good read.