A teenager struggling to survive in a hyper-realistic and fantastical America; a bank employee caught up in an unrelenting trial; a surveyor who gets stuck not only in the snow of a magical landscape on his way to the castle. In his novels, as well as in his stories and aphorisms, which are fully printed here alongside lesser-known texts, Franz Kafka has shaped the physiognomy of the 20th century. Never before has Kafka's world been presented as compactly as in this book: from the description of a struggle to "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," and "Letter to His Father," to the stories from the "Hunger Artist" collection, this book contains the complete works of an author who has influenced literary modernism like no other.