Franz Kafka bibliography

First page of Kafka's letter to his father

This is a bibliography of works by Franz Kafka. While a sortable list of his works concentrates on their text and first publishing, this list adds their publications in English.

Fiction

Novels

English title	Original German title	Translations available	Notes	Cover first edition
The Trial	Der Process (1925)	Willa and Edwin Muir (1935); Idris Parry (1994); Breon Mitchell (1999); David Wyllie (2003); Richard Stokes (2005); John Williams; (2008) Mike Mitchell (2009)	Includes the parable Before the Law	160x160px
The Castle	Das Schloss (1926)	Willa and Edwin Muir (1930); Mark Harman (1998); J. A. Underwood (2000); Anthea Bell (2009)	published in two versions – Max Brod's 1926 edition and a "definitive edition" in 1951
Amerika or The Man Who Disappeared; Amerika: The Missing Person	Amerika or Der Verschollene (1927)	Willa and Edwin Muir (1938); Michael Hofmann (2004); Mark Harman (2008)	Includes the short story "The Stoker" as first chapter	160x160px

Short stories

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The longer stories

English title	Original German title	Collected in:
"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart"	"Der Unredliche in seinem Herzen"	Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors
"Description of a Struggle" includes two dialogues originally published separately: "Conversation with the Supplicant" "Conversation with the Drunk"	"Beschreibung eines Kampfes" "Gespräch mit dem Beter" "Gespräch mit dem Betrunkenen"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories; Both dialogues originally published in Hyperion (Munich, 1909); a different version of "Conversation with the Supplicant" appears in The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"Wedding Preparations in the Country"	"Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande"	The Complete Stories, Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings
"The Judgment"	"Das Urteil"	The Complete Stories, The Sons, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
The Metamorphosis	Die Verwandlung	The Complete Stories, The Sons, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Stoker"	"Der Heizer"	The Sons; first chapter of Amerika
"In the Penal Colony"	"In der Strafkolonie"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Village Schoolmaster (The Giant Mole)"	"Der Dorfschullehrer" or Der Riesenmaulwurf	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor"	"Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
The Warden of the Tomb (short play)	Der Gruftwächter	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"A Country Doctor"	"Ein Landarzt"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Hunter Gracchus"	"Der Jäger Gracchus"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"The Great Wall of China"	"Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"A Report to an Academy"	"Ein Bericht für eine Akademie"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Refusal"	"Die Abweisung"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes
"A Hunger Artist"	"Ein Hungerkünstler"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	160x160px
"Investigations of a Dog"	"Forschungen eines Hundes"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"A Little Woman"	"Eine kleine Frau"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Burrow"	"Der Bau"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk"	"Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

First Edition of Betrachtung (Contemplation) (1912)

Contemplation (Betrachtung),
included in The Complete Stories and
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

English title	German title
"Children on a Country Road"	"Kinder auf der Landstraße"
"The Trees"	"Die Bäume"
"Clothes"	"Kleider"
"Excursion into the Mountains"	"Der Ausflug ins Gebirge"
"Rejection"	"Die Abweisung"
"The Street Window"	"Das Gassenfenster"
"The Tradesma"	"Der Kaufmann"
"Absent-minded Window-gazing"	"Zerstreutes Hinausschaun"
"The Way Home"	"Der Nachhauseweg"
"Passers-by"	"Die Vorüberlaufenden"
"On the Tram"	"Der Fahrgast"
"Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys"	"Zum Nachdenken für Herrenreiter"
"The Wish to be a Red Indian"	"Wunsch, Indianer zu werden"
"Unhappiness"	"Unglücklichsein"
"Bachelor's Ill Luck"	"Das Unglück des Junggesellen"
"Unmasking a Confidence Trickster"	"Entlarvung eines Bauernfängers"
"The Sudden Walk"	"Der plötzliche Spaziergang"
"Resolutions"	"Entschlüsse"

Shorter stories and parables

English title	Original German title	Included in:
"A Dream"	"Ein Traum"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"Up in the Gallery"	"Auf der Galerie"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"A Fratricide"	"Der Mord / Ein Brudermord"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Next Village"	"Das nächste Dorf"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"A Visit to a Mine"	"Ein Besuch im Bergwerk"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"Jackals and Arabs"	"Schakale und Araber"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Bridge"	"Die Brücke"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"The Bucket Rider"	"Der Kübelreiter"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, The Great Wall of China
"The New Advocate"	"Der neue Advokat"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"An Old Manuscript"	"Ein altes Blatt"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Knock at the Manor Gate"	"Der Schlag ans Hoftor"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"Eleven Sons"	"Elf Söhne"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"My Neighbor"	"Der Nachbar"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"A Crossbreed"	"Eine Kreuzung"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"The Cares of a Family Man"	"Die Sorge des Hausvaters"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"A Common Confusion"	"Eine alltägliche Verwirrung"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"The Truth about Sancho Panza"	"Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"The Silence of the Sirens"	"Das Schweigen der Sirenen"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"Prometheus"	"Prometheus"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"The City Coat of Arms"	"Das Stadtwappen"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"Poseidon"	"Poseidon"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes
"Fellowship"	"Gemeinschaft"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"At Night"	"Nachts"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"The Problem of Our Laws"	"Zur Frage der Gesetze"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"The Conscription of Troops"	"Die Truppenaushebung"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"The Test"	"Die Prüfung"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes
"The Vulture"	"Der Geier"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes
"The Helmsman"	"Der Steuermann"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"The Top"	"Der Kreisel"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
A Little Fable	"Kleine Fabel"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
Home-Coming	"Heimkehr"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
First Sorrow	"Erstes Leid"	The Complete Stories, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
"The Departure"	"Der Aufbruch"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"Advocates"	"Fürsprecher"	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"The Married Couple"	"Das Ehepaar"	The Complete Stories, The Great Wall of China
"Give It Up!"	"Gibs auf2	Description of a Struggle, The Complete Stories
"On Parables"	"Von den Gleichnissen"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Great Wall of China
"Before the Law"	"Vor dem Gesetz"	The Complete stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces; part of The Trial
"A Message from the Emperor"	"Eine kaiserliche Botschaft"	The Complete Stories, Parables and Paradoxes, The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces; part of "The Great Wall of China"
"Peking and the Emperor"	"Der Kaiser von Peking"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel"	"Die Chinesische Mauer und der Turmbau von Babel"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Paradise"	"Das Paradies"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Tower of Babel"	"Der Turm zu Babel"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Pit of Babel"	"Der Schacht von Babel"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Abraham"	"Abraham"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Mount Sinai"	"Der Berg Sinai"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Building of the Temple"	"Der Tempelbau"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Animal in the Synagogue"	"Das Tier in der Synagoge"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Watchman"	"Der Wächter"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Coming of the Messiah"	"Das Kommen des Messias"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Sirens"	"Die Sirenen"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Leopards in the Temple"	"Leoparden in Tempel"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Alexander the Great"	"Alexander der Grosse"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Diogenes"	"Diogenes"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Building of a City"	"Der Bau einer Stadt"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Imperial Colonel"	"Der Kaiserliche Oberst"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Emperor"	"Der Kaiser"	Parables and Paradoxes
"In the Caravansary"	"In der Karawanserei"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Cell"	"Die Zelle"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Invention of the Devil"	"Die Erfindung des Teufels"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Savages"	"Die Wilden"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Green Dragon"	"Der Grüne Drache"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Tiger"	"Der Tiger"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Couriers"	"Kuriere"	Parables and Paradoxes
"A Chinese Puzzle"	"Ein Geduldspiel"	Parables and Paradoxes
"Robinson Crusoe"	"Robinson Crusoe"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Spring"	"Die Quelle"	Parables and Paradoxes
"The Hunger Strike"	"Die Unersättlichsten"	Parables and Paradoxes
"My Destination"	"Das Ziel"	Parables and Paradoxes

Non-fiction

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Diaries and notebooks

Title	Original German title	Translators	Notes
Diaries 1910–1923	Tagebücher 1910–1923	1910–1913 Joseph Kresh 1914–1923 Martin Greenberg	Originally published in two volumes
The Blue Octavo Notebooks		Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins	included in Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings

Letters

Title	Original German title	Translators	Notes
Letter to His Father	Brief an den Vater	Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins	Included in The Sons and Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings
Letters to Felice	Briefe an Felice und andere Korrespondenz aus der Verlobungszeit	James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth	Includes Kafka's letters to Grete Bloch
Letters to Milena	Briefe an Milena	Philip Boehm	Includes Milena's letters to Max Brod, four essays by her and an obituary for Kafka
Letters to Ottla	Briefe an Ottla und die Familie	Richard and Clara Winston	Includes letters to Kafka's parents, sister Ottla, postcards, and drawings
Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors	Briefe 1902-1924	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

Essays

Title	Original German title	Notes	Included in:
The Aeroplanes At Brescia	Die Aeroplane in Brescia	Report on the air show at Brescia	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
The First Long Train Journey	Die erste lange Eisenbahnfahrt	Written by Kafka and Max Brod	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
Review of Hyperion	Eine entschlafene Zeitschrift	Review of the literary magazine	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
Review of A Novel about Youth	Ein Roman der Jugend	Review of Felix Sternheim's Die Geschichte des jungen Oswald	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
On Kleist's "Anecdotes"	Über Kleist's Anekdoten	Review of a collection of Heinrich Kleist's anecdotes	The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

Work-related writings

Title	Year	Included in:
The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building trades	1908	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute's New Director	1909	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Fixed-Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery	1909	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Inclusion of Private Automobile "Firms" in the Compulsory Insurance Program	1909	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Appeal against Risk Classification of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch	1910	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Measures for Preventing Accidents from Wood-Planing Machines	1910	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors	1911	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Workmen's Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen Bodenbacher Zeitung	1911	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Petition of the Toy Producers' Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge	1912	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Risk Classification Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding House Owner in Marienbad	1912	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Letters to the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague	1912-15	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees	1913	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna	1913	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Accident Prevention in Quarries	1914	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Jubilee Report: Twenty-Five Years of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute	1914	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
Risk Classification and Accident Prevention in Wartime	1915	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German-Bohemia	1916	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
"Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public"	1916/1917	Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

Collections

Schocken editions

Title	Year	Translators	Notes
The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections	1946	Willa and Edwin Muir
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces	1948	Willa and Edwin Muir
Dearest Father. Stories and Other Writings	1954	Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Description of a Struggle	1958	Tania and James Stern
Parables and Paradoxes	1961	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	Willa and Edwin Muir; Tania and James Stern	Reprinted in 1995 with a foreword by John Updike
I Am a Memory Come Alive	1974	Martin Greenberg and Hannah Arendt; Joseph Kresh; Gerald Onn; Willa and Edwin Muir; Tania and James Stern; Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins	Autobiographical writings selected from diaries, letters, and aphorisms
The Sons	1989	Willa and Edwin Muir	Translations revised and updated by Arthur Wensinger
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories	1995	Willa and Edwin Muir	Includes all the stories published in Kafka's lifetime
The Zürau Aphorisms	2006	Michael Hofmann; Geoffrey Brock

Other editions

Title	Year	Publisher	Translators	Notes
The Basic Kafka	1979	Pocket Books	Willa and Edwin Muir Tania and James Stern Richard and Clara Winston	A selection from Kafka's short stories, diaries, and letters.
The Penguin Complete Novels of Franz Kafka	1983	Penguin Books	Willa and Edwin Muir	Includes The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika; republished by Vintage in 1999
Metamorphosis and Other Stories	2007	Penguin Classics		Collection of Kafka's works
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings	2008	Princeton University Press	Eric Patton; Ruth Hein	A selection of Kafka's professional writings
Kafka's Greatest Stories	2010	Vook		Enhanced with video providing historical background on Kafka's life and influences.)
Essential Kafka: Rendezvous with Otherness	2011	Authorhouse		Enhanced with video providing historical background on Kafka's life and influences.)

Collaborations

English title	Original German title	Written with:	Notes
Richard and Samuel	Richard und Samuel	Max Brod	Intended to be a novel; only the first chapter was completed.

See also

• Franz Kafka works