Transformation
judgment
country doctor
A sudden walk
clothes
In the audience seats of the amphitheater
Old records
Before the law
Report to the Academy
Commentary on the work
Author's chronology

A collection of Franz Kafka's short stories that project uneasy dreams into reality.
A masterpiece that depicts the dark yet realistic concerns of modern people with a sharp perspective.

Franz Kafka is a writer who constantly reflects on his own identity.
He is also an author who reconstructs his own human limitations and the resulting suffering into problematic works.
He wanted to focus on writing and would immerse himself in it whenever he had time, but the reality was that he had to work at an insurance company to make a living.
The characters in this book's masterpiece, "Metamorphosis," also prioritize money over human dignity, and the protagonist, who is turned into an insect and unable to work, is eventually abandoned and dies alone.

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," which explores the alienated and abandoned human beings of the world, has been republished with the original 1916 first edition cover design.
The nine works included in this book reflect Kafka's own struggles as he wandered between the paths of a writer and a layman, experiencing lifelong conflict with his father.
In the end, he left his readers with the constant question of whether to live within the confines of the society they were born into and lose their true selves, or to deny it and live while challenging their dreams.

The situation in which the protagonist of "Metamorphosis" is turned into a bug and is shunned and abandoned by his family becomes a sad self-portrait of us living in reality.
The scene where he is unable to leave his room and then tries to leave is a struggle to maintain his role as a family member.
But his family turns away from him as he turns into a hideous vermin and is of no use to them, and eventually imprisons him.
This scene coldly reflects the painful reality that if you can't be of practical help to your family, you'll just end up being a burden.
It shows the harsh situation where there is no communication without return.

This book contains a selection of nine short stories by Franz Kafka, including his masterpiece "The Metamorphosis," which reveals reality through extreme virtual situations, "The Verdict," in which the protagonist commits suicide after an argument with his father, "The Country Doctor," in which a helpless doctor magically borrows a horse and gets caught up in a strange situation at a patient's house, and the very short stories "A Sudden Walk," "Clothes," and "In the Amphitheater's Seats."
Kafka's short story collection, which presents a heavy fantasy, makes us think again about the path we have lived and the path we will take in life.