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"Cheng Jiayan! Can you understand something! Your life is life, isn't the life of the Leming dog?" "Don't pretend to be in a car accident to be jealous of a dog. With such a small-minded virtue, you deserve to be hit by a car!" Twenty minutes after my car accident, I finally called my wife Jiang Yi. Her concern and nervousness didn't come, only the words "I deserve it" came in exchange. I am determined to divorce. From now on, my life will be bright, and you will never be able to enter my eyes again.

This book is one of the famous translation collections of world literary names. It is a collection of Kafka's short stories and short stories, translated by famous research and translation experts Li Wenjun, Gao Gaofu, Ye Tingfang, etc., Including "Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "At the Gate of the Law", "Country Teacher", "The Hungry Artist", "A Study of a Dog", "Josephine the Singer" and other famous short and medium stories. Classic selections and classic translations comprehensively demonstrate the artistic achievements of Kafka's novels.

This book contains Kafka's four travel diaries: the part in North Bohemia from January to February 1911 and the part in Vienna in September 1913 were written alone. From August to September 1911 and June to July 1912, Kafka and his close friend Brod agreed to travel together and write diaries on the same theme. Therefore, this book not only contains Kafka's diaries of these two trips, but the appendix also contains parallel diaries of Brod and Kafka. The two writers described the natural and cultural landscapes they saw during their travels from different angles, as well as their respective views and feelings. Their works highlighted each other, confirmed each other, complemented each other, and complemented each other. They are unique yet thought-provoking. Looking at it today, this book not only reflects the artistic taste and unique insights of the great writer, but also has a very valuable reference value for studying the customs and customs of various parts of Europe in the early 20th century.

"The Trial and the Castle" contains two novels, "The Trial" and "The Castle". "The Trial" tells the story of the protagonist Joseph K., Who was suddenly arrested on his 30th birthday. He knew he was innocent, appealed to a lawyer, and tried his best to prove it. However, all efforts were in vain. No one could prove his innocence. The court was a filthy place where filth and evil spread. The whole society enveloped him like an invisible legal net. He was finally killed in a quarry. This was the "trial" of him by the judicial institution under the bureaucracy. "The Castle" tells the story of land surveyor K. Who was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate. The protagonist K. Then started a long and cumbersome tug-of-war with the castle authorities over whether he could 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. Facing 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 Collected Works of Kafka (Set of 3 Volumes)" contains three of Kafka's representative novels, including "The Metamorphosis", "The Trial" and "The Castle". Among them, "The Metamorphosis" tells the absurd story of the salesman Gregor who suddenly transformed into a giant beetle that disgusted his family due to heavy physical and mental oppression. Being abandoned by the world after his transformation made him feel extremely sad. After several attempts to communicate with his relatives and the outside world failed, only death awaited him. Although it is absurd to read, it is shocking. His transformation reflects the real living conditions of Westerners at that time.

Kafka's diary is not a pure daily record, but a rich treasure trove containing a variety of text forms and literary genres. Kafka experimented and forged his own writing here, including a large number of creative motivations, reading notes, literary observations and reflections, some of which were even complete short works; there were also records of dreams, complex emotions involving personal emotions and family life, and sketches of the city, work, social and cultural environment in which he lived. In addition to the pain of tossing and turning for literature, there is also a vivid desire for life, showing his multiple images as a son, brother, friend, lover, employee, cultural event participant, and café regular. It also reveals a side of Kafka's character that is often ignored by the world. This book contains Kafka's diaries from 1910 to 1923, as well as notes from several travels, as well as sketches from the original manuscript.

This set of books is selected from the 1994 collated version of "The Complete Works of Kafka" published by Fischer Publishing House in Germany, and includes all novels, novellas and short stories written by the author (published and unpublished during his lifetime). The reason why this prestigious revised version was selected is that it is faithfully based on Kafka's manuscript. It not only retains the irregular punctuation marks and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work. It also corrects errors in some other versions, and faithfully reproduces the style of the author's manuscript.

Synopsis of "The Metamorphosis": It tells the absurd story of Gregor, a salesman, who suddenly transformed into a giant beetle that disgusted his family due to heavy physical and mental oppression. Although he still had human emotions and psychology, the shape of the insect turned him into a strange creature. After his transformation, he was abandoned by the world, which made him feel extremely sad. After several attempts to communicate with his relatives and the outside world failed, only death awaited him. It is used to reveal the essence of extreme loneliness and alienation between people, including relationships between people, who are superficially affectionate and affectionate. Although it is absurd to read, it is shocking. His transformation reflects the real living conditions of Westerners at that time.

This book selects short stories and short stories published by Kafka during his lifetime, covering several important creative stages in his life, including classics such as "The Judgment", "Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Country Doctor", "Report to an Academy of Sciences", "The Hungry Artist", "Josephine the Singer or the Mouse-like Audience", etc. It reflects Kafka's turning points and breakthroughs in each stage of literary creation.

The work tells the story of the protagonist K who applied for a job as a land surveyor in the castle. After traveling long distances and crossing many snowy roads, he finally arrived at a poor village under the jurisdiction of the castle in the middle of the night. In the village guest house, the exhausted K met all kinds of people, all of whom were civilians struggling at the bottom of society. Among them were the owner of the guest house, the landlady, the waitress, and some other miscellaneous staff. Although the castle was within easy reach, he had gone to great lengths to seduce the mistress of the castle official, but he could not get in. K was exhausted from running around and could not enter the castle until his death.

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.

"The Castle" is a masterpiece of Kafka's novel. Land surveyor K was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate. So K started a long and cumbersome negotiation with the castle authorities over whether he could 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 officials, and countless documents that are gathered there in dust, unattended and unprocessed for many years. Facing this powerful castle, K was helpless.

The protagonist Gregor Samsa in "The Metamorphosis" works as a traveling salesman in a company. He travels around for many years and works hard to support the entire family's expenses. When Samsa could still support his unsympathetic family with a meager salary, he was the respected eldest son in the family. His parents praised him and his sister loved him. When one day he turned into a beetle, lost his labor force, and no longer contributed materially to the family, his family changed their previous respect for him and gradually showed a face of indifference, disgust, and hatred. His father beat him viciously with an apple, his mother fainted from fright, and his sister disliked him. Gradually, Samsa moved away from society, and finally died silently and painfully of hunger.

One day, if you become a beetle, alienated from your loved ones and abandoned by the world, how will you survive? Is this a game between human nature and bestiality, or a struggle between individuals, family, and social relationships...

Joseph K. Was a bank assistant. He was suddenly arrested one day, but the charges were not announced and he was still free to move. He ran around and met many people, including lawyers, maids, businessmen, painters, priests... In order to clear his name, he experienced many weird and incredible things that seemed very "reasonable". Kafka, who was trained in law, used K's experience to depict the cruelty and decay of the modern Western state machine. He used various seemingly bizarre behaviors and language to show the absurdity and fear that ordinary people have nowhere to escape, and to show a "trial" that has no reason, nowhere to escape, and no solution.

"The Castle" is a novel by Franz Kafka. The protagonist K applied for a job as a land surveyor in the castle. After a long journey, he arrived at a village under the jurisdiction of the castle. The exhausted K met all kinds of people, they were all civilians struggling at the bottom. The castle is close at hand though. But despite all his efforts, he couldn't get in. K was exhausted from running around and could not enter the castle until his death. Kafka narrates a desperate struggle in a cold tone, thereby revealing the absurdity, alienation and indifference of the world.

The protagonist Joseph K was suddenly and inexplicably arrested on his 30th birthday. Although he knew he was innocent, he still could not escape the fate of being arrested. The strange thing is that after being arrested, he could work and live freely. However, he needs to be tried regularly. He tried many ways to prove his innocence, including lawyers, judges, and so-called witnesses. However, in the end, everything was in vain. No one could prove his innocence. The whole society was like an invisible legal net surrounding him, and he could never get rid of the accusation of his guilt. In the end, he was killed in the quarry, ending his short life inexplicably and hastily.

In Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", heavy physical and mental oppression causes people to lose their essence and become inhuman. A salesman woke up and found that he had turned into a beetle. Although he still had human emotions and psychology, his insect shape gradually turned him into a alien. After the transformation, he was abandoned by the world, which made him feel extremely sad. After three failed attempts to communicate with his relatives and the outside world, death was the only thing waiting for him. His transformation reflects the real living conditions of Westerners at that time. Through his novels, Kafka does not simply state the facts, but resists the world and pursues the perfection of human nature.

Kafka's literary achievements were mainly novels. In addition to many short and medium stories, he wrote a total of three novels in his life, and all three were unfinished works. Among them, "The Castle" is the most characteristic of Kafka and is known as "Kafka's Faust". The novel tells the story of the protagonist K's futile efforts to enter the castle. The work has profound meaning and bizarre content, showing an absurd world through a maze-like story.

This version of "The Castle" is designated and recommended by four well-known writers, Mai Jia, Su Tong, Alai, and Ma Jiahui, with an in-depth preface by Su Tong, the Mao Dun Literature Award winner. The protagonist K came to stay in the village at the foot of the castle late at night in the heavy snow, claiming to be a land surveyor hired by the Earl, the owner of the castle. According to common sense, if you want to go somewhere, there must be many ways to get there. But K ran around the village every day, but he could never enter the castle that was visible to the naked eye and not far away. The castle is a huge bureaucracy, but the people who have strong feelings about its bureaucracy are not the villagers there, but K, the outsider. The villagers silently guarded the fear of the castle passed down from generation to generation. Only K, the intruder, questioned the rationality of everything. Everyone lives in the system, but few people can see through the system. "The Castle" only wrote about a land surveyor, and it dealt with an era in depth. Yu Hua once commented that "Kafka's focus on water drops is to make all sea water appear automatically."

Franz Kafka (1883-1924), an Austrian novelist, was little known during his lifetime and his works were not taken seriously. After his death, his literary reputation rose and he became famous in the world of literature. His novels such as "The Castle", "The Missing" and "The Proceedings" have been widely circulated around the world and have had a great impact on modernist literature; he is praised as the founder of modernist literature and is known as "the writer among writers"; his novels have become must-read works for many writers and are considered "works that need to be read carefully and extensively". "The Metamorphosis - A Collection of Kafka's Short and Novels" includes all of Kafka's short and medium stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "At the Gate of the Law", "The Hungry Artist", "The Village Teacher", "The Construction of the Great Wall of China", "A Study of a Dog", 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. Mr. Zhang Rongchang, a senior translator and professor at Peking University, has devoted himself to the study of Kafka for decades, and single-handedly translated "The Metamorphosis - A Collection of Kafka's Short and Novels".

This book is selected from the revised version of "The Complete Works of Kafka" published by Fischer Publishing House in Germany in 1994, including all novellas and short stories created by the author (published and unpublished during his lifetime). The reason why this prestigious revised version was selected is that it is faithfully based on Kafka's manuscript. It not only retains the irregular punctuation marks and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work. It also corrects errors in some other versions, and faithfully reproduces the style of the author's manuscript. This book provides a more authoritative translation for Kafka lovers.

Dogs are friendly and selfless friends of humans. This is a collection of novels that describe the emotions between people and dogs. They are all written by famous Chinese and foreign writers. It is a literary work of high appreciation value. Seton's famous novel "I'm Waiting for You at the Ferry" tells the story of a puppy named Wu Li who waits at the ferry day after day, year after year, just to see his master return again. The work combines love, tragedy, and redemption, and is deeply touching. In O'Neill's "A Dog's Will", the author uses concise words to describe how his dog Bethlehem's laughter and joy diluted the sadness and pain caused by the owner's inability to forget the beautiful memories he spent with it. It is tear-jerking and unforgettable after reading it. The book also contains many famous works by other writers, all with the theme of expressing the emotions between humans and dogs. Each piece is classic and each piece is wonderful.

As the originator of modern literature in the early 20th century, Kafka has always been famous for his novels with bizarre plots and profound contents. Although his prose and essay writing continued throughout his life, and his achievements were no less than his various novels, most of Kafka's such works are scattered in his letters, diaries and miscellaneous thoughts, and are often ignored by ordinary readers. This book selects the author's profound thoughts and exquisitely written fragments from the complete collection, and divides them into confessions, friendship exchanges, love outpourings, casual reflections, etc., Which not only helps readers grasp Kafka's prose style as a whole, but also allows readers to explore the sea and savor the gorgeous literary feast of this writer and thinker who lived in the office of the insurance company in Prague in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire within a limited space.

"When I woke up in the morning, I found that I had turned into a beetle. I was shocked, struggling, remorseful, and regretful, but no one cared." Gregor was originally the financial supporter of the family, taking care of his parents and sister. But what happened that morning changed everything: his appearance as a beetle scared away his superiors who came to urge him to work. After losing his ability to work and his image as a human being, his family's attitude also changed drastically. He was unable to communicate with others, but he retained human emotions. In great loneliness, he silently examined the world... His world had indeed changed, and the world itself seemed to be like this. "Metamorphosis" uses an absurd fable to focus on the alienation of people in modern society.

One day, if you are trapped in a life like the Nobius Circle, no matter which way you go, there is no solution. How should you break through? Should you feel sorry for yourself, be willing to fall, or break out bravely...

"The Complete Novels of Kafka" is selected from the revised version of "The Complete Novels of Kafka" published by Fischer Publishing House in Germany in 1994, including all the author's novels, novellas and short stories. Faithfully based on Kafka's manuscript, it not only retains the irregular punctuation and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work, while also correcting errors in some other versions.

The complete collection of novels by Franz Kafka, the founder of Western modernist literature, "Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe of Our Time", highly recommended by Haruki Murakami, Hesse, Marquez, Camus, Borges and Kundera. Mr. Zhang Rongchang, a senior translator and professor at Peking University, has studied Kafka's authoritative translation for decades. Different versions of some articles have been collected together to restore the fragments deleted by the author. This set includes all of Kafka's novels in three volumes. "The Metamorphosis: A Collection of Short and Novels" includes all of Kafka's short and short stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Before the Gate of Law", "The Hungry Artist" and "The Country Teacher" 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. "The Missing" is Kafka's first novel, and "The Proceedings" is the first novel for which the author was well-known in the literary world. Each has its own distinctive characteristics, and has begun to show Kafka's unique creative style in the future. "The Castle" is the last of Kafka's three novels, and it is also Kafka's most distinctive and important novel. It was first written in 1922. Through the land surveyor K's encounter when he tried to enter the castle but failed, a seemingly completely unknown world of experience was constructed, but it showed unusual reality.

"The Metamorphosis" edited by Austrian Kafka. Kafka is the founder of modernist literature, and "The Metamorphosis" is one of his representative works. If you want to understand modernist literature, the best way is to start by reading "Time Library·Selected Short and Novels by Kafka: Metamorphosis" repeatedly. In "Time Library Kafka's Short Stories and Novels: The Metamorphosis" Kafka describes the absurd plot in which Gregor Samsa, a clerk, suddenly turns into a big beetle that disgusts his family. This reveals the fact that people - including ethics - are affectionate on the surface but extremely lonely and unfamiliar in their hearts. It vividly and profoundly reproduces the indifference between people in capitalist society. Describing all activities of human life and their realistic details in an absurd and illogical world was the genius of the famous novelist Kafka.

"The Castle" is the last of Kafka's three novels. It was written in 1922. The novel describes such a story: Land surveyor K was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but he was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate. Therefore, K launched a long and cumbersome negotiation with the castle authorities over whether he could 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 officials, and countless documents that are gathered there in dust, unattended and unprocessed for many years. Facing this powerful castle, K was helpless and failed to enter the castle until the end. The novel is shrouded in a mysterious and nightmarish atmosphere from beginning to end, with profound implications and endless evocative meanings.

This book not only retains the irregular punctuation marks and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work. It also corrects errors in some other versions and reproduces the author's handiwork exactly. It provides a valuable reference for translating and understanding Kafka's works. It also strives to create a new scope of vision for Kafka readers and Kafka research in my country.