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. Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927). Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors. Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. At the university, he joined a student club, named Lese- und Redehalle der Deutschen Studenten, which organized literary events, readings, and other activities. In the end of his first year of studies, he met Max Brod, a close friend of his throughout his life, together with the journalist Felix Weltsch, who also studied law. Kafka obtained the degree of doctor of law on 18 June 1906 and performed an obligatory year of unpaid service as law clerk for the civil and criminal courts. Writing of Kafka attracted little attention before his death. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories and never finished any of his novels except the very short "The Metamorphosis." Kafka wrote to Max Brod, his friend and literary executor: "Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others'), sketches, and so on, [is] to be burned unread." Brod told Kafka that he intended not to honor these wishes, but Kafka, so knowing, nevertheless consequently gave these directions specifically to Brod, who, so reasoning, overrode these wishes. Brod in fact oversaw the publication of most of work of Kafka in his possession; these works quickly began to attract attention and high critical regard. Max Brod encountered significant difficulty in compiling notebooks of Kafka into any chronological order as Kafka started writing in the middle of notebooks, from the last towards the first, et cetera. Kafka wrote all his published works in German except several letters in Czech to Milena Jesenská.
Series
Books
La Metamorfosis y Carta al Padre
1915
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
21 Short Tales
2011
Contemplation
1913
Die Verwandlung
2025
Franz Kafka
The Office Writings
2008
Wedding Preparations in the Country
1953
The Metamorphosis
1915
Erzählungen von Tieren
2023
The Essential Kafka
2011
Das Urteil und andere Prosa
1982
Jama
2022
The Castle
1926
Methamorphosis
2020
Diaries, 1910-1923
1949
The Trial
2006
The Complete Novels
Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle
2008
First Sorrow
1922
Investigaciones de un perro
2020
The Complete Stories
1946
Description of a Struggle
1909
Selected Short Stories
1952
Best Short Stories
A Dual-Language Book
1997
Akbaba
1920
I Am a Memory Come Alive
Autobiographical Writings
1974
DAS URTEIL VON FRANZ KAFKA
1913
Förvandlingen / Den sanningssökande hunden
1964
A Little Woman
1924
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
1914-1923
1974
The Judgment
1912
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
Essential Stories
2010
Amerika
1927
Before the Law
1915
Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
1975
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
1910-1913
1948
Franz Kafka
The Complete Novels
2019
Selected Stories
2024
The Complete Stories and Parables
2023
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
1915
In der Strafkolonie. Ein Landarzt. Ein Hungerkünstler
1924
Prozy utajone
1920
الشبح الذي جاء يعتذر
2019
The Departure
2014
Verzameld werk
1977
Essential Kafka
Rendezvous with 'otherness'
2009
The Very Best Classic Short Stories
2011
Punições
A Sentença, A Metamorfose, Na Colónia Penal
2023
Kafka's Selected Shorter Writings - New Century Edition with DirectLink Technology
2005
გარდასახვა
2011
The Stoker
1913
H Metamorfosh
Greek Edition
1900
Franz Kafka
The Best Works
1931
In the Penal Colony
1912
Der Kübelreiter · Ein Hungerkünstler
2006
A message from the emperor
2012
The Castle / The Trial
1956
Zerstreutes Hinausschauen und andere Parabeln (Die sieben wichtigsten Werke des Jahrhundertschriftstellers 7)
2023
Short Stories by Franz Kafka
2023
El silencio de las sirenas
2005
A Country Doctor
1945
Cuentos breves para leer en el bus
2004
Short Stories
1993
The Hunter Gracchus
2011
A Great Artist One Day
2003
Stories 1904-1924
1981
فرانز كافكا - الأعمال الكاملة - الكتاب الأول
1976
Brief an den Vater
2023
The Bridge
1987
The Metamorphosis
2004
Das Ehepaar Und Andere Schriften Aus Dem Nachlass
2008
The trail
2022
رسائل إلى ميلينا
1952
Homecoming
2025
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
1995
Kleider
2010
Letters to Milena
1952
Description of a Struggle and Other Stories
1934
The Warden Of The Tomb
1936
Antología de cuentos cortos (Clásicos ilustrados)
2022
Abandoned Fragments
Unedited Works 1897-1917
2012
Parables and Paradoxes
1935
წერილები მილენასადმი
1959
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
2023
La Metamorfosis y otros relatos de Animales
1999
La metamorfosis y otros cuentos
2023
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
1915
Racconti
2008
The Refusal
1920
A Hybrid
2025
On Metaphors
2025
Die Verwandlung, Briefe an den Vater und weitere Werke
1999
The Trial and Metamorphosis
1960
La metamorfosi e tutti i racconti
2011
Kafka Four Stories
A Country Doctor, the Hunger Artist, the Little Woman, Report to the Academy
2006
Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk
1924
Kafka's Selected Stories
1963
The Trees
2010
Magical Realist Fiction
An Anthology
1984
A Hunger Artist
1924
Regard
2011
A Little Fable
1998
A Report for an Academy
1917
The Street Window
1912
The Burrow and Other Stories
2019
The Zürau Aphorisms
1931
The Knock at the Manor Gate
1931
Kafkaesque
Fourteen Stories
2018
The Sons
1989
Blue Octavo Notebooks
1953
En la colonia penitenciaria; La condena
1919
The Metamorphasis and Other Stories
2003
The Trial
1925
In the Penal Colony
1918
Kafka's Greatest Stories
2010
Consideraciones acerca del pecado, el dolor, la esperanza y el camino verdadero
1992
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
1915
Investigations of a Dog
And Other Creatures
1982
The Best Known Works of Kafka
2009
The Basic Kafka
1979
Kafka
A Graphic Novel Adaptation
2010
Franz Kafka
The Collection
2018
The Burrow
1924
Letters to Felice
1967
Metamorphosis
A Bizarre Tale of Transformation: Discover Kafka's Classic Novella
2010
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
2022
Die Verwandlung
Text und Kommentar Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek
2008
Franz Kafka. Briefe an die Eltern. Aus den Jahren 1922 - 1924
1990
Up in the Gallery
1919
Investigations of a Dog
1922
Konundrum
Selected Prose of Franz Kafka
2016
The Lost Writings
2020
The Bucket Rider
2012
Letter to His Father
1919
Eleven sons
1914
The Uncanny Reader
Stories from the Shadows
2015
Give It Up!
2017
The Great Wall of China and other Stories
1931
Samtliche Erzahlungen
1970
Der Nachbar
1917
He
Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
2020
Lettera al padre / La condanna
2016
On the Tram
1912
Jackals and Arabs
1919
Kafka's Monkey
2012
A Fratricide
1917
Give it Up! and Other Short Stories
1995
The Great Wall of China
1931
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
Franz Kafka - Collected Works
2012
A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
1922
Scrisoare către tata
2014
Ottla'ya ve Aileye Mektuplar
1971
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka
1915
The Village Schoolmaster
1931
