false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173534360m/300947.jpg 22904 18 How many writers get their own adjective? The work of this terminally alienated master narrator of the subconscious demanded a new descriptor; I guess they gave up and just settled on "Kafkaesque." But if you ever wonder what the original Kafkaesque work was, take a look here. The book contains all of Kafka's short and longer stories -- everything but his three novels. Most of these stories weren't even published during the author's lifetime. The widely-anthologized <i>The Metamorphosis</i> is here, wherein Gregor Samsa awakes from uneasy dreams to find himself insectoidally transformed, as are equally lovely pieces like <i>A Hunger Artist</i>, <i>A Country Doctor</i> and <i>A Little Woman</i>. 568437 1971 The Complete Stories total:2973|5:1611|4:987|3:320|2:43|1:12| 2973 13061 4181 161 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 3 false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 12:43:25 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 13:54:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2061630 25 1 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203641586m/2061630.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2061630.The_Complete_Stories_Parables 5 1 false Tue Oct 07 20:20:14 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 20:20:19 -0700 2008
Kafka was the greatest writer of short fiction of the modern era. Such storie...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 1 false Fri Apr 11 21:08:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 21:22:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4 2 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Fri Aug 17 23:00:05 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 02:00:23 -0700 2007
Really.

If you've been led to believe that Kafka wrote drab stories about alienation and angst (and that The Metamorphosis is a tradgedy), then take a magic marker, cross out the name on the spine, and preten...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 20:51:55 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 20:59:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 1 false Thu May 17 11:18:16 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 11:25:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 12 01:25:08 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 01:32:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 3 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 05:56:12 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 06:05:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 0 false Fri Nov 27 22:29:31 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 12:17:54 -0800 2009
then, at 16, during a pivotal moment when i had been cut off from books by homelessness, someone passed me a paperback of kafka stories and told me i must read them. It was pretty...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 1 false Fri Oct 02 07:14:13 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 09:57:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4 2 false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 08:41:10 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:06:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 25 01:17:08 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 02 02:19:36 -0800 2008
Kafka's novels are justifiably famous. All unfinished, they are profoundly concerned with postponement, delay, frustration, missed chances... Form therefore carries subject matter perfectly -- in an almost unbearable manner.

But Kafka's...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 2 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 21:11:28 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 13:08:44 -0700 2008
So far, a lot of his writing seems to say "Look how well I write!" though the stories themselves don't really stand up.

They usually start off well enough with the introduction of interesting characters, but the plot almost alwa...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4 0 false Tue Jun 19 12:29:10 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 12:41:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 0 false Mon May 28 23:46:05 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 00:05:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4 0 false Wed Sep 12 19:27:53 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 03:58:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4350671 0805234195 9780805234190 3 1 4.39 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4350671.The_Complete_Stories 2 0 false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:28:13 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:28:13 -0700 2009 Just as I would get into his ideas put forth in a page or two, many of the "stories" end unfinished. After reading the bibliography or oth...more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 1 0 false Wed Dec 10 20:50:41 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 20:55:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2842 151 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 5 0 false Fri Jan 16 07:49:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:55:05 -0800 2009 279432 0805204237 9780805204230 14 3 4.39 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208110976m/279432.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279432.Kafka_complete_Stories 0 0 false Sat Jun 27 08:34:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 08:41:19 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=300947