Author: Franz Kafka

Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on fiercely by his ungrateful family. This...

'The supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament' John Updike'The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comi...

'...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers' Entering New York harbour, the young immig...

New translation of the best stories by one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers 'A genius' Guardian No one has ...

Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces ...

Long fascinated with the work of Franz Kafka, Peter Kuper began illustrating his stories in 1988. Initially drawn to the masters dark humour, Kuper...