Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, most of whose works were published posthumously. Born in Prague of Jewish descent, his unique body of writing continues to challenge critics and readers alike, and attempts to classify his works are generally inadequate.

Bibliography

Short Stories

• Description of a Struggle (Beschreibung eines Kampfes - 1904-1905)
• Wedding Preparations in the Country (Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande - 1907-1908)
• The Judgment (Das Urteil - September 22-23, 1912)
• In the Penal Colony (In der Strafkolonie - October 1914)
• The Village Schoolmaster (The Giant Mole) (Der Dorfschullehrer or Der Riesenmaulwurf - 1914-1915)
• Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor (Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle - 1915)
• The Warden of the Tomb (Der Gruftwächter - 1916-1917), the only play Kafka wrote
• A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt - 1917)
• The Hunter Gracchus (Der Jäger Gracchus - 1917)
• The Great Wall of China (Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer - 1917)
• A Report to an Academy (Ein Bericht für eine Akademie - 1917)
• The Refusal (Die Abweisung - 1920)
• A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler - 1922)
• Investigations of a Dog (Forschungen eines Hundes - 1922)
• A Little Woman (Eine kleine Frau - 1923)
• The Burrow (Der Bau - 1923-1924)
• Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk (Josephine, die Sängerin, oder Das Volk der Mäuse - 1924)

Many collections of the stories have been published, and they include:

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• Kafka, Franz (ed. Nahum N. Glatzer). The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.

Novellas

• The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung - November-December 1915)

Novels

• The Trial (Der Prozeß - 1925) (includes short story Before the law)
• The Castle (Das Schloß - 1926)
• America (Amerika - 1927)

Diaries and notebooks

• Diaries of Franz Kafka
• The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Letters

• Letters to Felice
• Letters to Ottla
• Letters to Milena
• Franz Kafka: Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors

On Kafka

• Brod, Max. Franz Kafka: A Biography. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
• Brod, Max. The biography of Franz Kafka, tr. from the German by G. Humphreys Roberts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1947.
• Citati, Pietro, Kafka, 1987.
• Deleuze, Gilles & Felix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 30). Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1986.
• Greenberg, Martin, The terror of art; Kafka and modern literature. New York, Basic Books,1968.
• Hayman, Ronald. K, a Biography of Kafka., London: Phoenix Press, 2001.
• Murray, Nicholas. Kafka. New Haven: Yale, 2004.
• Pawel, Ernst. The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka. New York : Vintage Books, 1985.
• Thiher, Allen (ed.). Franz Kafka: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction, No 12).