Franz Kafka
author : Franz Kafka
Born in Prague in 1883, the son of a self-made Jewish merchant, Franz Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked in insurance. He published little during his lifetime and lived his life in relative obscurity. He was forced to retire from work in 1917 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis, a debilitating illness which dogged his final years. When he died in 1924 he bequeathed the – mainly unfinished – manuscripts of his novels, stories, letters and diaries to his friend the writer Max Brod with the strict instruction that they should be destroyed. Brod ignored Kafka’s wishes and organised the publication of his work, including The Trial, which appeared in 1925. It is through Brod’s efforts that Kafka is now regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.
Franz Kafka Book Series
Diaries of Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
The Complete Stories
In the Penal Colony
The Trial
Amerika
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
Sons
Letters to Milena
Investigations of a Dog: And Other Creatures
Collected Stories
The Great Wall of China
The Burrow
The Castle
The Meowmorphosis
The Sons
The Lost Writings
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Investigations of a Dog
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text