Generally known by his two great novels, The Trial and The Castle, Kafka was also a master of other narrative forms: the tale, the parable, the vignette, and even the epigram. This collection of his stories includes all the available shorter fiction, edited, arranged and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways which bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.

About the Author

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers.