German-speaking Bohemian novelist, most of whose work was published after his death.
Kafka's 1915 novella in seventy pages of exact prose. A man becomes an insect overnight. The story is not about the transformation; it is about what comes after, and what it reveals about work, family, and obligation.
Kafka's unfinished novel about a man arrested without charges and caught in an impenetrable legal system. The brief covers what the trial actually investigates, the machinery of power behind the courts, Kafka's ambivalence about the work itself, and which chapters matter most.