프란츠 카프카

《변신》은 프란츠 카프카의 중편 소설이다. 어느날 아침 눈을 뜨고 나니, 거대한 벌레로 변해버린 한 남성과 그를 둘러싼 가족들의 전말을 묘사한 소설이며, 카프카의 작품 중 가장 널리 알려져 있는 소설이다. 1912년에 집필하여, 월간지의 1915년 10월호에 게재하고, 같은 해 12월 쿠르트 볼프 사가 출판하였다. 카프카는 이 책을 집필하기 전에 집필하던 「판결」, 「화부」와 이 작품을 함께 엮어 출판하려고 계획하였으나, 출판사의 반대로 이루어지지 …

《소송》은 1914년에서 1915년까지 집필된 프란츠 카프카의 장편 소설이다. 이유도 모른 채 재판을 받게 된 남자 요제프 K. 갖은 노력을 하고 분투했음에도, 그는 비참하게 처형 당하게 되는 데, 소설은 이 과정을 묘사하고 있다. 카프카가 살아 있을 때에는 발표되지 않았고, 그가 죽은 후 1927년 친구 막스 브로트가 편집 및 출판을 맡았다. 내용에 결말이 존재하지만, 각각의 장은 단편이므로 전체적으로는 미완의 …

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and …

Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never …

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim and is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial …

This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.

"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of …

Franz Kafka's Diaries, written in German language between 1910-1923, include casual observations, details of daily life, reflections on philosophical ideas, accounts of dreams, and ideas for stories. Kafka’s diaries offer a detailed view of the writer's thoughts and feelings, as well as some of his most famous and …

The Great Wall of China is the first posthumous collection of short stories by Franz Kafka published in Germany in 1931. It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924. The first …