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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.
- The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka.
- The Trial Franz Kafka.
- The Castle Franz Kafka.
- The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka.
May 15, 2024 · Where to start reading Franz Kafka’s books. From Metamorphosis to darkly humorous short stories and impassioned love letters, get to know Franz Kafka with our essential guide to his works.
- The Metamorphosis
- The Trial
- The Penal Colony
- The Castle
- A Hunger Artist
- A Country Doctor
- Letter to His Father
- Amerika
- Letters to Milena
- The Burrow
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‘The Metamorphosis‘ is Kafka’s best-known novel and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. It was written in three weeks in a burst of inspiration and brought forth the story of Gregor Samsa. Gregor, a normal traveling salesman, wakes up one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a giant insect. This transformation goes witho...
‘The Trial‘ is a short novel that follows the story of Josef K., a man who is accused of an unknown crime. Throughout the book, he tries unsuccessfully to find out what he supposedly did, but it is never revealed to K. or the reader. He is prosecuted by an authority that he has no access to, nor does he have a real ability to defend himself.
‘The Penal Colony‘ tells the story of the brutal and horrifying execution of a prisoner. The narrative focuses heavily on the “apparatus” that’s going to carve the prisoner’s sentence on his back before letting him die. Through the story, the purpose of this process is revealed. It is the administrator’s belief that only through pain will a prisone...
‘The Castle’ is a novel that follows “K” the protagonist who arrives at a village, hoping to get access to a castle. He struggles to complete this task and unfortunately, Franz Kafkadied before finishing the novel. He suggested that it would end with K. dying in the village and receiving an absurd, Kafkaesque letter from the castle.
In this strange and troubling story, Kafka describes the profession of a hunger artist who starves himself for the entertainment of others. This artist who is the focus of this story has started to lose interest in his profession. At the same time, he is reaching the pinnacle of his art. It was published in 1922.
‘A Country Doctor’ is a short story that was written in 1917 and published in a collection of the same name. It details the journey of a doctor in the middle of a winter night. He goes to visit a patient and while there faces a series of absurd and surreal obstacles.
‘Letter to His Father‘is the name given to a 40+ page letter that Kafka wrote to his father Hermann. Within it, he outlines the fears and stresses of his childhood and the influence his father had on him, mostly a negative one. it was Kafka’s hope that by writing this letter he and his father would be able to bridge the gap between them. But, his m...
This incomplete novel is also known as ‘The Man Who Disappeared.’ It was written between 1911 and 1914 and describes the journey of a sixteen-year-old European Karl Roßmann. He was forced to immigrate to America became of a scandal involving a housemaid. The novel breaks off without a conclusion but he told his friend Max Brod that the novel would ...
This book is a collection of many of Kafka’s letters that he wrote to Milena Jesenská over a three-year period in the 1920s. They were first published in German in 1952 and then in English a year later. They’re filled with memorable quotes that shed light on Kafka’s mental state during that period.
This story is one of several that Kafka left unfinished before he died. It was published posthumously in 1931. It is a strange and unnerving story about a being that burrows through a system of tunnels that it’s built over its lifetime. The creature is constantly afraid of something happening to his burrow or one kind of attack from an enemy. He st...
Explore the best works of Franz Kafka, a master of existentialism and absurdism. Learn about his themes, styles, and influences in this comprehensive list of his novels and short stories, with summaries and analysis.
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German : ungeheueres Ungeziefer , lit ...
- Peter Kuper, Franz Kafka
- 1915
Feb 19, 2021 · The best Kafka books, recommended by Stanley Corngold, Kafka scholar and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Princeton.
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Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
