Franz Kafka: Bibliography

Novels

  • Der Prozeß; English Title: The Trial – includes the parable, “Before the Law”
  • Das Schloß; English Title: The Castle
  • Amerika or Der Verschollene; English Title: Amerika or The Man Who Disappeared

Collections (Schocken Editions)

  • The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections (1946) – trans. Willa and Edwin Muir.
  • The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces (1948) – trans. Willa and Edwin Muir.
  • Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954) – trans. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
  • Parables and Paradoxes (1961) – trans. Clement Greenberg; Richard and Clara Winston; Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins;
    Willa and Edwin Muir; Tania and James Stern. (Bilingual Edition)
  • The Complete Stories (1971) – trans. Willa and Edwin Muir; Tania and James Stern. (Reprinted in 1995, with a foreward by John Updike.)
  • I Am a Memory Come Alive (1974) – trans. Martin Greenberg and Hannah Arendt;
    Joseph Kresh; Gerald Onn; Willa and Edwin Muir; Tania and James Stern; Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.
  • The Sons (1989) – trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. (Translations revised and updated
    by Arthur Wensinger.)
  • The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (1995) – trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. (Includes all the stories published in Kafka’s lifetime.)

Epistolary

  • Brief an den Vater, English Title: Letter to His Father – trans. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. (Included in The Sons and Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings.)
  • Briefe an Felice und andere Korrespondenz aus der Verlobungszeit, English Title: Letters to Felice – trans. James Stern and
    Elisabeth Duckworth. (Includes letters to Grete Bloch.)
  • Briefe an Milena, English Title: Letters to Milena – trans. Philip Boehm. (Includes Milena’s letters to Max Brod,
    four essays by her and an obituary for Kafka.)
  • Briefe an Ottla und die Familie, English Title: Letters to Ottla – trans. Richard and Clara Winston. (Includes letters to other members of the family.)
  • Briefe 1902-1924, English Title: Letters to Families, Friends, and Editors – trans. Richard and Clara Winston. (Includes a selection from the slips of paper Kafka used to communicate in the last few weeks of his life when he was advised not to speak.)

Diaries and Notebooks

  • Tagebücher 1910-1923, English Title: Diaries: 1910 – 1923 – trans. Joseph Kresh (1910-1913), Martin Greenberg (1914 – 1923). (Originally published in two volumes.)
  • The Blue Octavo Notebooks – trans. Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. (Included in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings.)

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