Preface

The Text of Kafka’s Selected Stories

1. The Judgment – A Story
2. The Stoker – A Fragment
3. In the Penal Colony
4. A Country Doctor – Little Stories
5. The New Lawyer
6. A Country Doctor
7. Up in the Gallery
8. A Page from an Old Document
9. Before the Law
10. Jackals and Arabs
11. The Worry of the Father of the Family
12. A Fratricide
13. A Dream
14. A Report to an Academy
15. A Starving Artist. Four Stories
16. First Distress
17. A Starving-Artist
18. Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People
19. Posthumously Published Stories
20. The Bridge
21. The Hunter Gracchus: Two Fragments
22. Building the Great Wall of China
23. The Knock at the Courtyard Gate
24. A Cross
25. An Everyday Event
26. The Silence of the Sirens
27. Prometheus
28. Poseidon
29. On the Question of the Laws
30. Researches of a Dog
31. A Comment
32. On Parables
33. The Burrow

Backgrounds and Contexts

1. Letters, Diaries, and Conversations

Criticism

1. Stanley Corngold – Preface
2. In the Circle of “The Judgment”
3. Danielle Allen – Sounding Silence [In the Penal Colony]
4. Walter Hinderer – An Anecdote by Kafka: “A Fratricide”
5. 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
6. Nicola Gess – The Politics of Listening: The Power of Song in “Josefine, the Singer”
7. Vivian Liska – Positions: on Franz Kafka’s “Poseidon”
8. Benno Wagner – “No one indicates the direction”: The Question of Leadership in Kafka’s Later Stories
9. John A. Hargraves – Kafka and Silence: An Alternate View of Music
10. Gerhard Kurz – The Rustling of Stillness: Approaches to Kafka’s “The Burrow”

Franz Kafka: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography