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"The Castle" is Kafka's most distinctive and important novel: Land surveyor K was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate. Therefore, the protagonist K and the castle authorities launched a long and cumbersome tug-of-war over whether to enter the castle. The castle is located on a hill in front of us, but it is just out of reach; it is so cold and majestic, like a giant beast looking down at K; it represents a huge bureaucracy with a strict hierarchy, countless departments and countless officials, but there are countless documents that have been gathered there, unattended and unprocessed for many years. Faced with this powerful castle, K was helpless and did not enter the castle until the end, nor did he see the castle authority. The novel is shrouded in a mysterious and nightmarish atmosphere from beginning to end, with profound implications and endless evocative meanings.

"The Castle" is Kafka's masterpiece novel. The protagonist K in the novel claims to be a land surveyor and is hired by the Earl of the castle to come to a village next to the castle. Although the castle was close at hand, it was out of reach for K. He could never enter. He sank deeper and deeper into the village, and finally cut off all possibility of contact with the castle. K was helpless with the maze created by the "castle" and endured absurd torture.

This book includes all of Kafka's short and medium stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Before the Gate of Law", "The Hungry Artist", "The Village Teacher", etc. Are all popular masterpieces. They all use symbols, metaphors, exaggeration and other techniques, with vivid plots and concise and smooth language; the stories are weird and bizarre, with no definite time and place, no cause and effect, giving people a dreamy, mysterious and strange feeling. The protagonists of the works are almost always in a situation where they can't help themselves. They all have their own goals in the bizarre world, but they often end up failing.

This book includes Kafka's masterpieces of short and medium-sized novels such as "The Metamorphosis", "The Burrow", "The Country Doctor", "In the Penal Colony", "The Hungry Artist" and "The Judgment", which reflect the strangeness, loneliness, depression, division and alienation that are common in human existence. The work uses surreal imagination, realistic detailed descriptions, cold and concise language expressions, and profound and unpredictable connotations to describe the infinite complexity of human nature like an allegory.

When Gregor woke up in the morning, he found that he had turned into a beetle and could not move in bed. Why did I choose such a tiring career, traveling day after day! If it weren't for my parents, I would have quit my job a long time ago. I would also go to my boss and express my inner feelings. What if I call in sick now? But I have never been sick in the past five years of work. Don't stay in bed like a useless person, it's already seven o'clock! Just when he was racking his brains on how to keep his job, he heard the director coming home and knocking on his door... This book selects three representative short stories by Kafka, "The Metamorphosis", "The Judgment" and "The Hunger Artist". Each of them reveals the real situation in which we are squeezed and deformed by life and work. When we begin to see ourselves in Kafka's works, it is our chance to break through this realistic dilemma!

A person, a worm. A person carrying the burden of life, an insect carrying a heavy body. When a person carrying a heavy burden suddenly turns into an insect wearing a shell one day, will the burden in his heart be relieved? When the man who became a bug looked at the world with "bug eyes," what did he see? The novel "Metamorphosis" gives the answers to these questions, which makes people sigh after reading it. The author of "The Metamorphosis" is the Austrian novelist Franz Kafka. He is known as the "pioneer of modern literature". The first person who can be compared with Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe is Kafka.

A book of life that resonates strongly with every lonely person! Classic translation by famous translator Ji Jianmei, authoritative annotated edition! Kafka started keeping a diary in 1910, and until 1923, this was also the most creative period in his life. Compared with his novels, he is more candid and free in his diary, allowing us to have a glimpse of his unique and rich inner world. This book collects Kafka's diaries written from 1914 to 1923, as well as his travel diaries from 1911 and 1912. During this period, he recorded the changes in his emotional relationship with Phyllis, the hottest love affair in his life, his thoughts on the state of existence in the atmosphere of war, his understanding of life during his illness, etc. At the same time, we also see fragments of his inspiration, unfinished manuscripts, and his complete inner weakness and loneliness.