Works
Franz Kafka Bibliography:
Novels:
Note: The dates indicate when the works were originally published.
- The Trial (1925)
- The Castle (1926)
- America (1927)
- The Judgement (1913)
- Meditation (1913)
- In the Penal Colony (1914)
- The Metamorphosis (1915)
- A Country Doctor (1916)
- A Report to an Academy (1919)
- Letters to His Father (1919)
- The Burrow(1923)
- Josepine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk (1924)
- A Hunger Artist (1924)
- The Giant Mole (1931)
- The Great Wall of China (1933)
- Investigations of a Dog (1933)
- Before the Law (1933)
- Blumfield, an Elderly Bachelor (1933)
- Description of a Struggle (1936)
- The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-23 (1951)
- Letters to Milena (1952)
- Letters 1902-24 (1958) (ed. by M. Brod)
- Letters to Felice (1967)
- Letters to Ottla and the Family (1974)
- Letters to Friends, Family and Editors (1977)
Kafka's works available on this site:
A Country Doctor »
A strange tale of a country doctor, who in the middle of terrible winter struggles to attend a sick boy in a distant household. (5 pages)
A Hunger Artist »
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. (8 pages)
A Report for An Academy »
A short story of an ape explaining his slow and painful domestication to the level of a cultured European. (8 pages)
An Imperial Message »
One-page story about a message sent by the emperor from his deathbed to his pathetic subject. (1 page)
Before the Law »
A short parable of a man who comes to a gate wishing to gain entry into the law, but the gatekeeper denies him entrance. (2 pages)
In the Penal Colony »
A traveler in a penal colony witnesses a complex torture and execution machine that writes in the flesh of prisoners with needles, before letting them die. (23 pages)
Jackals and Arabs »
A short story of a European man traveling in the desert, who is approached by the jackals and asked to end their dispute with Arabs. (3 pages)
Josephine the Songstress »
A community of mice worships a singer named Josephine. Kafka's last short story. (20 pages)
The Great Wall of China »
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. (11 pages)
The Hunter Gracchus »
A death boat with long dead Hunter Gracchus arrives at a port. Gracchus discusses his death and his destiny of eternal aimless wandering. (4 pages)
The Judgement »
A man's discussion with his father about a letter to his friend in Russia erupts into a confrontation about their father-son relationship. (9 pages)
The Metamorphosis »
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. (41 pages)
The Trial »
A bank clerk is arrested one day and searches through the absurd machinations of the legal system to discover the nature of the charges. (152 pages)
Up in the Gallery »
One-page parable presented through an equestrian circus act. (1 page)