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.