A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's
masterpiece of unease and black humour Metamorphosis the story of an ordinary man
transformed into an insect is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works
that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation a collection of his earlier
short studies The Judgement written in a single night of frenzied creativity The Stoker
the first chapter of a novel set in America and an eyewitness account of an air display.
Together these stories fragments and miniature gems reveal the breadth of his vision his
sense of the absurd and above all his acute uncanny wit. Translated with an introduction by
Michael Hofmann
