Franz Kafka Books


The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, published in 1915, opens with one of the most famous lines in fiction: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in hi..

Betrachtung

Franz Kafka

Betrachtung is a collection of eighteen short stories written in German by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 in the Rowohlt Ver..

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

A Hunger Artist is a German short story written by Bohemian novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka, probably his last story.The story begins with a general description of "the hunger ar..

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

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 Kafka's other writings, the narrator..