Translations
Parables and Paradoxes brings together short texts from the wide variety of Kafka's works. Since different texts were handled by different translators this volume allows readers to compare the various ways Kafka's works have been rendered into English. The translators included are:
- Clement Greenberg
- Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
- Willa and Edwin Muir
- Tania and James Stern
Works by Franz Kafka
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Novels |
- The Trial
- The Castle
- Amerika
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Short stories |
1902–12
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- "Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart"
- "Description of a Struggle"
- "Wedding Preparations in the Country"
- "The Judgment"
- "The Stoker"
- "The Metamorphosis"
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1914–17
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- "In the Penal Colony"
- "The Village Schoolmaster" ("The Giant Mole")
- "Before the Law"
- "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor"
- "The Warden of the Tomb"
- "A Country Doctor"
- "The Hunter Gracchus"
- "The Great Wall of China"
- "A Message from the Emperor"
- "A Report to an Academy"
- "A Dream"
- "Up in the Gallery"
- "A Fratricide"
- "The Next Village"
- "A Visit to a Mine"
- "Jackals and Arabs"
- "The Bridge"
- "The Bucket Rider"
- "The New Advocate"
- "An Old Manuscript"
- "The Knock at the Manor Gate"
- "Eleven Sons"
- "My Neighbor"
- "A Crossbreed"
- "The Cares of a Family Man"
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1917–23
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- "The Refusal"
- "A Hunger Artist"
- "Investigations of a Dog"
- "A Little Woman"
- "The Burrow"
- "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"
- "A Common Confusion"
- "The Truth about Sancho Panza"
- "The Silence of the Sirens"
- "Prometheus"
- "The City Coat of Arms"
- "Poseidon"
- "Fellowship"
- "At Night"
- "The Problem of Our Laws"
- "The Conscription of Troops"
- "The Test"
- "The Vulture"
- "The Helmsman"
- "The Top"
- "A Little Fable"
- "Home-Coming"
- "First Sorrow"
- "The Departure"
- "Advocates"
- "The Married Couple"
- "Give It Up!"
- "On Parables"
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Short story
collections |
- Contemplation (1912)
- A Hunger Artist (1924)
- The Complete Stories
- The Sons
- The Penal Colony
- Parables and Paradoxes
- The Great Wall of China
- Dearest Father
- Description of a Struggle
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Diaries and
notebooks |
- The Diaries 1910–1923
- The Blue Octavo Notebooks
- The Zürau Aphorisms
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Letters |
- Letter to His Father
- Letters to Felice
- Letters to Ottla
- Letters to Milena
- Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors
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Professional
writings |
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