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200 pages into my Kafka short story collection, here's how i'd rank them so far:

In The Penal Colony
The Metamorphosis
Description Of a Struggle
The Judgment
Wedding Preparations in the Country.

>> No.3864861
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>>3864852

That was one of the biggest wastes of money I ever made. Also, my edition had hundreds of errors, mostly with missing punctuation. I have the Vintage UK edition.

>> No.3864865

>>3864861

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Short-Stories-Vintage-Classics/dp/0749399465/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371666787&sr=1-1&keywords=kafka+vintage

I assume you're talking about this edition? I own it too.

>> No.3864901

Yeah i'd definitely agree with the first two. Penal colony deals with some of the deep machinations of worship within society. Metamorphosis does the same thing but is more about normative social roles and is a genuinely less engaging story.

>> No.3864929

hunger artist is my favorite so far

>> No.3867437

>>3864852
In The Penal Colony and A Country Doctor are the best

>> No.3867464

Process
Metamorphosis
Country Doctor
In the Penal Colony

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>>3864865
Do you know if this has Investigations of a Dog in it? Or, do you know a decent collection that does? Someone suggested this was the best of his stories, but I haven't been able to find it.

I like a lot of Kafka's parables more than his short stories, though
>These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.

>There are four legends concerning Prometheus:
>According to the first, he was clamped to a rock in the Caucasus for betraying the secrets of the gods to men, and the gods sent eagles to feed on his liver, which was perpetually renewed.
>According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.
>According to the third, his treachery was forgotten in the course of thousands of years, the gods forgotten, the eagles, he himself forgotten.
>According to the fourth, every one grew weary of the meaningless affair. The gods grew weary, the eagles grew weary, the wound closed wearily.
>There remained the inexplicable mass of rock.--The legend tried to explain the inexplicable. As it came out of a substratum of truth it had in turn to end in the inexplicable.

http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/poseidon.htm

>> No.3867488

>>3864865

Yeah. It must've had at least 300 errors in it. They're on almost every page.

>> No.3867490

>>3864861
>>3864865

The Penguin one is pretty good:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metamorphosis-Stories-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/014118812X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371743234&sr=1-1&keywords=metamorphosis+and+other+stories

I do dislike the intentional "absurd cover" though.