Brain Worms Book Club 114 / Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories reveals the author’s extraordinary talent in a variety of forms—prose poems, short stories, sketches, allegories, and novelettes—and showcases the straight–faced humour, startling psychological insight, and haunting imagination for which he is revered as a modern master.

We will be reading the Penguin edition of Metamorphosis and Other Stories which contains the following stories:

Contemplation (1913)
Children on the Road
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
The Sudden Walk
Resolutions
The Excursion into the Mountains
The Plight of the Bachelor
The Businessman
Looking out Distractedly
The Way Home
The Men Running Past
The Passenger
Dresses
The Rejection
For the Consideration of Amateur Jockeys
The Window on to the Street
Desire to be a Red Indian
The Trees
Being Unhappy

The Judgement: A Story for F. (1913)

The Stoker: A Fragment (1913)

Metamorphosis (1913)

In the Penal Colony (1919)

A Country Doctor: Short Prose for my Father (1920)
The New Advocate
A Country Doctor
In the Gallery
An Old Journal
Before the Law
Jackals and Arabs
A Visit to the Mine
The Neighbouring Village
A Message from the Emperor
The Worries of a Head of Household
Eleven Sons
A Fratricide
A Dream
A Report to an Academy

A Hunger-Artist: Four Stories (1924)
First Sorrow
A Little Woman
A Hunger-Artist
Josefine, the Singer, or The Mouse People

Appendix
Aeroplanes in Brescia (1909)
Great Noise (1912)
The Coal-Scuttle Rider (1921)

Available from all good libraries and book shops.

You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.

We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/

You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.

We hope to see you there.

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