false 4350671 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg 22904 18 568437 1971 The Complete Stories total:2987|5:1618|4:993|3:321|2:43|1:12| 2987 13123 4207 161 5223 3.86 57208 2910 30564734 708858 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 4722650 63444 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 4 2 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Fri Aug 17 23:00:05 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:45:45 -0800 2009
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...]]> 34784517 1596746 2061630 25 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203641586m/2061630.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2061630.The_Complete_Stories_Parables 4.39 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...]]> 19981615 77417 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 5 1 false Fri Apr 11 21:08:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 21:22:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1531189 55813 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 1273989 84260 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 5 1 false Thu May 17 11:18:16 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:37:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 37497989 1607278 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 56836836 544978 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 79176178 2919610 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 73193262 400778 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 5 1 false Fri Oct 02 07:14:13 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 09:57:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 64084986 2422096 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 28240222 1138007 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 19616457 237421 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 2125487 68467 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 4 0 false Tue Jun 19 12:29:10 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 12:41:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1506986 100004 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 5 0 false Mon May 28 23:46:05 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 00:05:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 6125504 373377 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 4 0 false Wed Sep 12 19:27:53 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 03:58:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 75173328 1714733 4350671 0805234195 9780805234190 3 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4350671.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 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...]]> 39838861 1124714 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 1 0 false Wed Dec 10 20:50:41 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 20:55:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 43232239 126266 22904 0805210555 9780805210552 2852 151 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223588017m/22904.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.The_Complete_Stories 4.39 5 0 false Fri Jan 16 07:49:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:55:05 -0800 2009 61286438 159477 279432 0805204237 9780805204230 14 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208110976m/279432.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279432.Kafka_complete_Stories 4.39 0 0 false Sat Jun 27 08:34:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 08:41:19 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4350671