Collected Stories

Franz Kafka’s imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writer’s extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
–randomhouse.com

Children on a country road —
Unmasking a confidence trickster —
The sudden walk —
Resolutions —
Excursion into the mountains —
Bachelor’s ill luck —
The tradesman —
Absent-minded window-gazing —
The way home —
Passers-by —
On the tram —
Clothes —
Rejection —
Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys —
The street window —
The wish to be a red Indian —
The trees —
Unhappiness —
The judgment —
The stoker —
The metamorphosis —
In the penal colony —
A country doctor: The new advocate —
A country doctor —
Up in the gallery —
An old manuscript —
Before the law —
Jackals and Arabs —
A visit to a mine —
The next village —
An imperial message —
The cares of a family man —
Eleven sons —
A fratricide —
A dream —
A report to an academy —
The bucket rider —
A hunger artist: First sorrow —
A little woman —
A hunger artist —
Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk —
Description of a struggle —
Wedding preparations in the country —
The student —
The angel —
The village schoolmaster (The giant mole) —
Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor —
The hunter Gracchus —
The proclamation —
The bridge —
The Great Wall of China —
The knock at the manor gate —
An ancient sword —
New lamps —
My neighbor —
A crossbreed (A sport) —
A splendid beast —
The watchman —
A common confusion —
The truth about Sancho Panza —
The silence of the siren —
Prometheus —
The city coat of arms —
Poseidon —
Fellowship —
At night —
The problem of our laws —
The conscription of troops —
The test —
The vulture —
The helmsman —
The top —
Hands —
A little fable —
Isabella —
Home-coming —
A Chinese puzzle —
The departure —
Advocates —
Investigations of a dog —
The married couple —
Give it up! —
On parables —
The burrow.