With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his famil...
In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, and first published in October 1919.The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. It describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves...
On a snowy night, a country doctor desperately seeks a way to reach a very sick patient in a village some fifty miles away. His own horse died from overexertion the night before, and Rosa, his servant girl, has found no other horse in the village for...