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
