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Before the Law

by Franz Kafka

The gatekeeper has to bend way down to him, for the great difference has changed things to the disadvantage of the man. “What do you still want to know, then?” asks the gatekeeper. “You are insatiable.” “Everyone strives after the law,” says the man, “so how is that in these many years no one except me has requested entry?” The gatekeeper sees that the man is already dying and, in order to reach his diminishing sense of hearing, he shouts at him, “Here no one else can gain entry, since this entrance was assigned only to you. I’m going now to close it.

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  • Biography
  • Works:
    • The Trial (152 pages)
    • The Metamorphosis (41 pages)
    • Before the Law (2 pages)
    • In the Penal Colony (23 pages)
    • A Hunger Artist (8 pages)
    • Jackals and Arabs (3 pages)
    • A Report for An Academy (8 pages)
    • A Country Doctor (5 pages)
    • An Imperial Message (1 pages)
    • The Judgement (9 pages)
    • The Great Wall of China (11 pages)
    • The Hunter Gracchus (4 pages)
    • Up in the Gallery (1 pages)
    • Josephine the Songstress (20 pages)
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