The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth
century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.
"An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The
stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque,
ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached,
exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic." --*The New York Times
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The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the
classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," and "A
Hunger Artist" to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka's
literary executor, released after Kafka's death. With the exception of
his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in
this volume.
"[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his
birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern
man's cosmic predicament." --from the Foreword by John Updike