About the Author

Franz Kafka is one of the most original, enigmatic and disturbing of the great modern European writers.

Reviews

'Underwood has revitalised that world of painful pedantry and comic obsession... He writes with rhythm, confidence and flair... A typically brief and brilliant foreword by Jorge Luis Borges... Acquire this necessary book.' MARTIN AMIS, OBSERVER 'A careful and sensitive English rendering of all the stories published in book form during Kafka's lifetime.' GUARDIAN 'A translation that lets us meet his work as something real,' TIME OUT