num_pages: 346
description: Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.
language: English
title: Selected Short Stories
titlecomplete: Selected Short Stories
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Literature, Collections, Classic Literature, German Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 1014
publisher: Modern Library