From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover Kafka's entire writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti described as "one of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century." Kafka's stories, Borges argues in his introduction, are superior even to his novels, and this collection "gives us the full dimension of this unique writer." The acclaimed translation by J.A. Underwood offers the reader all the chilly atmosphere of Kafka's darkly comic universe, as captured in the imposing precision of his language.