弗兰兹·卡夫卡

《变形记》是一部中篇小说，奥地利德语作家卡夫卡的代表作，发表于1915年。在《变形记》中，职业为推销员的主人翁一觉醒来，发现自己变成了一只巨大的蟑螂。这是卡夫卡最著名的一部作品，也包含很多象征意义，和许多不同的阐释。

《审判》是卡夫卡写的一部长篇小说。小说的主人公约瑟夫·K在一个早上被唤醒后，不明原因地被捕，陷入一场难缠的官司之中，却不知道自己的罪名。K最终在一个黑夜里被带走，并秘密处死。

Wikipedia writes: "...the protagonist known only as K struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village for unknown reasons. ...Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, bureaucracy, the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to …

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 It was edited by Max Brod and Hans Joachim Schoeps and collected previously unpublished short stories, incomplete stories, fragments and aphorisms written by Kafka between 1917 and 1924.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 …