Contents
- Preface
- The Text of Kafka’s Selected Stories
- The Judgment • A Story
- The Stoker • A Fragment
- In the Penal Colony
- A Country Doctor • Little Stories
- The New Lawyer
- A Country Doctor
- Up in the Gallery
- A Page from an Old Document
- Before the Law
- Jackals and Arabs
- The Worry of the Father of the Family
- A Fratricide
- A Dream
- A Report to an Academy
- A Starving Artist. Four Stories
- First Distress
- A Starving-Artist
- Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People
- Posthumously Published Stories
- The Bridge
- The Hunter Gracchus: Two Fragments
- Building the Great Wall of China
- The Knock at the Courtyard Gate
- A Cross
- An Everyday Event
- The Silence of the Sirens
- Prometheus
- Poseidon
- On the Question of the Laws
- Researches of a Dog
- A Comment
- On Parables
- The Burrow
- Backgrounds and Contexts
- Letters, Diaries, and Conversations
- Criticism
- Stanley Corngold • Preface
- In the Circle of "The Judgment"
- Danielle Allen • Sounding Silence [In the Penal Colony]
- Walter Hinderer • An Anecdote by Kafka: "A Fratricide"
- Walter Sokel • Identity and the Individual, or Past and Present: Franz Kafka’s
"A Report to an Academy" in a Psychoanalytic and a Sociohistorical Context - Nicola Gess • The Politics of Listening: The Power of Song in "Josefine, the Singer"
- Vivian Liska • Positions: on Franz Kafka’s "Poseidon"
- Benno Wagner • "No one indicates the direction": The Question of Leadership in Kafka’s Later Stories
- John A. Hargraves • Kafka and Silence: An Alternate View of Music
- Gerhard Kurz • The Rustling of Stillness: Approaches to Kafka’s "The Burrow"
- Franz Kafka: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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