Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
CHAPTER I The Office The metamorphosis of the model employee ♪ Philip Glass · Metamorphosis Two Choose those you fight with care, for the face you hate is eventually engraved upon your own like a mask you can no longer remove. Gregor Mateo S. woke up one morning transformed into a model employee.1Not an insect. Worse. ’I woke perfect,’ Gregor thought. The System, more modestly, recorded ’performance improvement - no prior request’. He was no longer a man but an indicator glowing green. And indicators, like enriched freedmen, never have enough. No one remarked upon the teeth: white, even and alien, installed overnight with the care reserved for a replacement part. The transformation was not announced. Human Resources had updated his ontological profile while he slept: he was now compatible. The self that doubted, arrived late, or stared through the window appeared as an earlier version without technical support.23
