Bibliography
Novels
All three of Kafka's novels were never finished and were published as incomplete novels. Even though you can never reach the end of the story, it's the journey that matters, and they are still very much worth reading.
| English Title | Original German Title | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| The Trial | Der Prozeß | text html epub kindle |
| The Castle | Das Schloß | html epub |
| Amerika | Amerika or Der Verschollene |
Novellas
The Metamorphosis gets its own category. How nice.
| English Title | Original German Title | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| The Metamorphosis | Die Verwandlung | text html epub kindle |
Short Stories
Rather than listing all of the books within which these stories have been released, I have named each story individually. There are a number of books available which contain a group of short stories, including The Complete Stories, Contemplation, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, The Great Wall of China, and Parables and Paradoxes. I have broken the short stories into two categories loosely by length.
This list is far from complete. Kafka has a lot of short works, and I haven't read them all. I would prefer to not blindly add titles to the list without being sure they fit into this category.
Very short stories
| English Title | Original German Title |
|---|---|
| Children on a Country Road | Kinder auf der Landstraße |
| Unmasking a Confidence Trickster | Entlarvung eines Bauernfängers |
| The Sudden Walk | Der plötzliche Spaziergaang |
| Resolutions | Entschlüsse |
| Excursion into the Mountains | Der Ausflug ins Gebirge |
| Bachelor's Ill Luck | Das Unglück des Junggesellen |
| The Tradesman | Der Kaufmann |
| Absent-minded Window-gazing | Zerstreutes Hinausschaun |
| The Way Home | Der Nachhauseweg |
| Passers-by | Die Vorüberla ufenden |
| On the Tram | Der Fahrgast |
| Clothes | Kleider |
| Rejection | Die Abweisung |
| Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys | Zum Nachdenken für Herrenreiter |
| The Street Window | Das Gassenfenster |
| The Wish to Be An Indian | Wunsch, Indianer zu werden |
| The Trees | Die Bäume |
| Unhappiness | Unglücklichsein |
Stories of about a page or more
| English Title | Original German Title |
|---|---|
| Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart | Der Unredliche in Seinem Herzen |
| Description of a Struggle | Beschreibung eines Kampfes |
| Wedding Preparations in the Country | Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande |
| The Judgment | Das Urteil |
| The Stoker | Der Heizer |
| In the Penal Colony | In der Strafkolonie |
| The Village Schoolmaster | Der Dorfschullehrer or Der Riesenmaulwurf |
| Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor | Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle |
| The Warden of the Tomb (short play) | Der Gruftwächter |
| A Country Doctor | Ein Landarzt |
| The Hunter Gracchus | Der Jäger Gracchus |
| The Great Wall of China | Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer |
| A Report to an Academy | Ein Bericht für eine Akademie |
| The Refusal | Die Abweisung |
| A Hunger Artist | Ein Hungerkünstler |
| Investigations of a Dog | Forschungen eines Hundes |
| A Little Woman | Eine kleine Frau |
| The Burrow | Der Bau |
| Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk | Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse |