num_pages: 328
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.The JudgementThe MetamorphosisIn the Penal ColonyThe Great Wall of ChinaA Country DoctorA Common ConfusionThe New AdvocateAn Old ManuscriptA FratricideA Report to an AcademyThe Hunter GracchusA Hunger ArtistInvestigations of a DogThe BurrowJosephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
language: English
title: Selected Stories of Franz Kafka
titlecomplete: Selected Stories of Franz Kafka
genres: Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Modern Library