The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

The Penal Colony
First edition
Author	Franz Kafka
Translator	Willa and Edwin Muir
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Schocken Books
Publication date	1948

The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception in The Stoker which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, "The First Long Train Journey" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue by Brod. This collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

Conversation with the Supplicant

a slightly different version from the text of the dialogue as it appears in the story Description of a Struggle

Meditation
- Children on a Country Road
- The Trees
- Clothes
- Excursion into the Mountains
- Rejection
- The Street Window
- The Tradesman
- Absent-minded Window-gazing
- The Way Home
- Passers-by
- On the Tram
- Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys
- The Wish to be a Red Indian
- Unhappiness
- Bachelor's Ill Luck
- Unmasking a Confidence Trickster
- The Sudden Walk
- Resolutions
The Judgment
The Metamorphosis
A Country Doctor
- The New Advocate
- A Country Doctor
- Up in the Gallery
- An Old Manuscript
- Before the Law
- Jackals and Arabs
- A Visit to a Mine
- The Next Village
- An Imperial Message
- The Cares of a Family Man
- Eleven Sons
- A Fratricide
- A Dream
- A Report to an Academy
- The Bucket Rider
In the Penal Colony
A Hunger Artist
Appendix
- The First Long Train Journey - by Kafka and Brod
- The Aeroplanes at Brescia
- Three Critical Pieces
  - A Novel about Youth - Review of Felix Sternheim's Die Geschichte des jungen Oswald
  - On Kleist's "Anecdotes"
  - Hyperion - Review of the literary magazine
- Epilogue by Max Brod

References

Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces. New York: Schocken Books, 1948. ISBN 0-8052-3198-6

Works by Franz Kafka

Novels

Short stories

1902–12	"Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart" "Description of a Struggle" "Wedding Preparations in the Country" "The Judgment" "The Stoker" The Metamorphosis "The Aeroplanes at Brescia"

1914–17	"In the Penal Colony" "The Village Schoolmaster" "Before the Law" "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor" "A Country Doctor" "The Hunter Gracchus" "The Great Wall of China" "A Message from the Emperor" "A Report to an Academy" "A Dream" "Up in the Gallery" "A Fratricide" "The Next Village" "A Visit to a Mine" "Jackals and Arabs" "The Bridge" "The Bucket Rider" "The New Advocate" "An Old Manuscript" "The Knock at the Manor Gate" "Eleven Sons" "My Neighbor" "A Crossbreed" "The Cares of a Family Man"

1917–23	"The Refusal" "A Hunger Artist" "Investigations of a Dog" "A Little Woman" "The Burrow" "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" "A Common Confusion" "The Truth about Sancho Panza" "The Silence of the Sirens" "Prometheus" "The City Coat of Arms" "Poseidon" "Fellowship" "At Night" "The Problem of Our Laws" "The Conscription of Troops" "The Test" "The Vulture" "The Helmsman" "The Top" "A Little Fable" "Home-Coming" "First Sorrow" "The Departure" "Advocates" "The Married Couple" "Give It Up!" "On Parables"

Short story
collections

Diaries and
notebooks

Letters
and essays

Plays

The Warden of the Tomb

Category

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The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

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