The Complete Stories

by Kafka, Franz

• ISBN13: 9780805210552
• ISBN10: 0805210555
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307829450
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780805208733
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-14
• Publisher: Schocken
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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 At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work.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.

Table of Contents

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