No Longer Human = A Shameful Life (1958. 1973)

Three times every day at the regulated hour the family gathers in this gloomy room. People normally seem to be hiding this true nature, but an occasion will arise (as when an ox sedately ensconced in a grassy meadow suddenly lashes out with its tail to kill the horsefly on its flank) when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror. He gave as his reason for not coming again the stupid joke that Marxists should study not only the productive aspects of society but the consumptive ones. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.