The story of Karl Rossmann who after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange excapades and dizzying adventures.
The terrifying tale of Joseph K, a respectable funtionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information. A nightmare vision of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the mad agendas of twenthieth-century totalitarian regines.
A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.
Presents a new translation of Kafka's final novel about the land-surveyor K's obsessive attempts to reach the castle, illustrating man's struggle against bureaucracy.
A collection of short fiction stories by Czechoslovakian author Franz Kafka, including the title work about Gregor Samsa, a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an enormous insect.