A Country Doctor. The Metamorphosis. In the Penal Colony. Other short stories.

Franz Kafka was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. Here are the novel "The Metamorphosis" and the short stories "A Country Doctor";"In the Penal Colony; A Hunger Artist; The Helmsman; The Knock at the Manor Gate; Give It Up!