Works

Franz Kafka - The Trial | Description: A bank clerk is arrested one day and searches through the absurd machinations of the legal system to discover the nature of the charges. He never finds out and is killed 'like a dog.'

Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis | Description: A traveling salesman living with his family wakes up one morning to find that he is now a giant insect. His family is none too pleased, keeping him locked in a room and increasingly ignoring him until the salesman/insect finally dies, seemingly from alienation.

Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony | Description: An explorer in a foreign penal colony witnesses the designer of a torture machine, which writes on prisoners with needles, fail in his attempt to use the machine on himself for redemption.

Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist | Description: A story of a professional faster, his techniques, his great feats, the widespread popularity of his glory days and the increasing alienation of his waning career.

Franz Kafka - Josephine the Songstress or The Mouse Folk | Description: A community of mice worships a singer named Josephine. Kafka's last short story.

Franz Kafka - The Judgement | Description: A man's discussion with his father about a letter to his friend in Russia erupts into a confrontation about their father-son relationship that eventually drives the son to suicide.

Franz Kafka short story - Before the Law

Franz Kafka - The Great Wall of China | Description: A discussion of the building of the great wall, its construction, the attitudes of those in charge, and who it aims to protect against. Also explores the character of the country and the existence of its emperor.

Jackals and Arabs - short story by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka - A Report for An Academy | Description: An ape explains his slow and painful domestication to the level of a cultured European.

Franz Kafka - The Hunter Gracchus | Description: A death boat carrying the long dead Hunter Gracchus arrives at a port. Gracchus discusses his death while hunting and his eternal aimless wanderings in the boat.

Franz Kafka - An Imperial Message - short story

Franz Kafka - A Country Doctor | Description: A country doctor flees the rape of his servant girl when he receives a medical call from a nearby village. When he arrives, the doctor discovers a boy with worms crawling in a hip flesh wound. The superstitious villagers force the doctor to get in bed with sick boy.

Franz Kafka - Up in the Gallery short story