The Complete Stories

The only available collection that brings together all of Kafka's stories--those published during his lifetime and those released after his death.

Franz Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including “The Metamorphosis,” “The Judgment,” and “The Stoker.” He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

FOREWORD

ix

JOHN UPDIKE

TWO INTRODUCTORY PARABLES

3

(6)

Before the Law*

3

(1)

An Imperial Message*

4

(5)

THE LONGER STORIES

9

(370)

Description of a Struggle

9

(43)

Wedding Preparations in the Country

52

(25)

The Judgment*

77

(12)

The Metamorphosis*

89

(51)

In the Penal Colony*

140

(28)

The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]

168

(15)

Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor

183

(23)

The Warden of the Tomb

206

(14)

A Country Doctor*

220

(6)

The Hunter Gracchus

226

(5)

The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment

231

(4)

The Great Wall of China

235

(13)

The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment

248

(2)

A Report to an Academy*

250

(9)

A Report to an Academy: Two Fragments

259

(4)

The Refusal

263

(5)

A Hunger Artist*

268

(10)

Investigations of a Dog

278

(39)

A Little Woman*

317

(8)

The Burrow

325

(35)

Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk*

360

(19)

THE SHORTER STORIES

379

(80)

Children on a Country Road*

379

(3)

The Trees*

382

(1)

Clothes*

382

(1)

Excursion into the Mountains*

383

(1)

Rejection*

383

(1)

The Street Window*

384

(1)

The Tradesman*

385

(2)

Absent-minded Window-gazing*

387

(1)

The Way Home*

387

(1)

Passers-by*

388

(1)

On the Tram*

388

(1)

Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys*

389

(1)

The Wish to Be a Red Indian*

390

(1)

Unhappiness*

390

(4)

Bachelor's Ill Luck*

394

(1)

Unmasking a Confidence Trickster*

395

(2)

The Sudden Walk*

397

(1)

Resolutions*

398

(1)

A Dream*

399

(2)

Up in the Gallery*

401

(1)

A Fratricide*

402

(2)

The Next Village*

404

(1)

A Visit to a Mine*

404

(3)

Jackals and Arabs*

407

(4)

The Bridge

411

(1)

The Bucket Rider

412

(2)

The New Advocate*

414

(1)

An Old Manuscript*

415

(3)

The Knock at the Manor Gate

418

(1)

Eleven Sons*

419

(5)

My Neighbor

424

(2)

A Crossbreed [A Sport]

426

(1)

The Cares of a Family Man*

427

(2)

A Common Confusion

429

(1)

The Truth about Sancho Panza

430

(1)

The Silence of the Sirens

430

(2)

Prometheus

432

(1)

The City Coat of Arms

433

(1)

Poseidon

434

(1)

Fellowship

435

(1)

At Night

436

(1)

The Problem of Our Laws

437

(2)

The Conscription of Troops

439

(2)

The Test

441

(1)

The Vulture

442

(1)

The Helmsman

443

(1)

The Top

444

(1)

A Little Fable

445

(1)

Home-Coming

445

(1)

First Sorrow*

446

(3)

The Departure

449

(1)

Advocates

449

(2)

The Married Couple

451

(5)

Give it Up!

456

(1)

On Parables

457

(2)

POSTSCRIPT

459

(2)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

461

(4)

EDITORS AND TRANSLATORS

465

(2)

ON THE MATERIAL INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME

467

(8)

CHRONOLOGY

475

(6)

SELECTED WRITINGS ON KAFKA

481

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