The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker: A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: America, The Trial, and The Castle.
It is the fate and perhaps the greatness of that work that it
offers everything and confirms nothing
*Albert Camus*
The Dante of the Twentieth Century
*W. H. Auden*
No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times
*George Steiner*
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