Franz Kafka: The Metamorphisis and Other Stories
Translated by Stanley Appelbaum
April 2016
All very bizarre stories – the plot is clear, but the intent is
baffling.
- The Judgement: a man inexplicably condemned by his father, commits
suicide in the river.
- The Metamorphosis: a traveling sales man, at home, wakes up as
a cockroach.
- In the Penal Colony: an explorer, newly arrived in a penal colony,
is to observe an execution by a locally invented contraption.
- A Country Doctor: surreal events occur as a country doctor needs
to make a late night visit.
- A Report to an Academy: an ape gives a speech about his
humanization.