It's not quite a metamorphosis story, but the 2007 film Teeth came to mind almost instantly while I was reading Will Self's Cock and Bull. In Teeth, a sixteen year old girl's vagina undergoes a transformation of sorts the way Carol's does in Cock. Only, in Teeth, her vagina literally grows teeth.
The characters are similar in that they undergo not only physical but mental and emotionally changes throughout their stories. Carol, initially complacent though bored with her life as the wife of an alcoholic, regains her power through brutal means. in the same way, Dawn O'Keefe finds power in her transformation, by dominating those who would attempt to dominate her sexually.
There is an element of humor in both works, though I believe the humor is a lot more overt in Teeth and plays more on the absurdity but also the horror of a hormonal teenage girl, raging around town, biting guys penises off. Will Self's humor is a lot more subtle and a lot more subversive - and the change that his main character goes through is not a gimmick, and not playing on more obvious themes of male vs. female. In that way, I think the story succeeded. We spend enough time inside Carol's head so that her actions - while shocking - make sense for her character.
I also think that the insertion of a storyteller, someone once removed from Self...himself...was an interesting tool. it creates a dynamic where the author, Self, is both distancing and bringing the reader into the story. By having a narrator narrating someone else narrating the tale, he anticipates but also manipulates our reactions to the final, bizarre climax of the story. I suppose the main reason why Teeth so quickly came to mind for me was that the story had a very cinematic quality - people so often say that about literature just to say it - but I guess what I mean is that it had an atmosphere and a tone that for me matches the visual landscape of Teeth, and would be interesting to see presented in that way.
Here's the trailer for Teeth below:
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