The Problem of Our Laws The Conscription of Troops The Test The Vulture The Helmsman The Top A Little Fable Home-Coming First Sorrow* The Departure Advocates The Married Couple Give it Up! On Parables Postscript Bibliography Editors and Translators On the Material Included in this Volume Chronology Selected Writings on Kafka * Published during Kafka's lifetime.įOREWORD By John Updike All that he does seems to him, it is true, extraordinarily new, but also, because of the incredible spate of new things, extraordinarily amateurish, indeed scarcely tolerable, incapable of becoming history, breaking short the chain of the generations, cutting off for the first time at its most profound source the music of the world, which before him could at least be divined. Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk* The Shorter Stories Children on a Country Road* The Trees* Clothes* Excursion into the Mountains* Rejection* The Street Window* The Tradesman* Absent-minded Window-gazing* The Way Home* Passers-by* On the Tram* Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys* The Wish to Be a Red Indian* Unhappiness* Bachelor's Ill Luck* Unmasking a Confidence Trickster* Sudden Walk* Resolutions* Dream* Up in the Gallery* A Fratricide* The Next Village* A Visit to a Mine* Jackals and Arabs* The Bridge The Bucket Rider The New Advocate* An Old Manuscript* The Knock at the Manor Gate Eleven Sons* My Neighbor A Crossbreed The Cares of a Family Man* A Common Confusion The Truth About Sancho Panza The Silence of the Sirens Prometheus The City Coat of Arms Poseidon Fellowship At Night PT2621.A26A2 1988 833'.912 88-18418 ISBN 0-8052-0873-9 Manufactured in the United States of America 35798642Ĭontents Foreword by John Updike Two Introductory Parables Before the Law* An Imperial Message* The Longer Stories Description of a Struggle Wedding Preparations in the Country The Judgment* The Metamorphosis* In the Penal Colony* The Village Schoolmaster Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor The Warden of the Tomb A Country Doctor* The Hunter Gracchus The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment The Great Wall of China The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment A Report to an Academy* A Report to an Academy: Two Fragments The Refusal A Hunger Artist* Investigations of a Dog A Little Woman* The Burrow Kafka, Franz, 1885-1924 - Translations, English. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Collection first published in 1971 by Schocken Books Inc. Foreword copyright © 1983 by John Updike. The foreword by John Updike was originally published in The New Yorker. Distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Published in the United States by Schocken Books Inc., New York. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. This edition also features a fascinating introduction by John Updike, a chronology of Kafka's life, and a selected bibliography of critical writings about Kafka.Ĭopyright © 1971 by Schocken Books Inc. The remarkable depth and breadth of his brilliant and probing imagination become even more evident when these stories are seen as a whole.

The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as 'The Metamorphosis,' 'In the Penal Colony' and 'The Hunger Artist' to less-known, shorter pieces and fragments Brod released after Kafka's death with the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. Shortly before his death at the age of forty, he instructed Max Brod, his friend and literary executor, to burn all his remaining works of fiction. numinous and prophetic.' - New York Times 'The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them.' - Anatole Broyard Franz Kafka wrote continuously and furiously throughout his short and intensely lived life, but only allowed a fraction of his work to be published during his lifetime. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic. Back Cover: 'An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating.

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