The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces
1948 collection of writings by Franz Kafka
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The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka,[1] with additional writings by Max Brod.[citation needed] First published in 1948 by Schocken Books,[1] this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication,[citation needed] and published during his lifetime[1] (the only exception is "The Stoker", which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika[citation needed]). 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. The collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.
 First edition | |
| Author | Franz Kafka |
|---|---|
| Translator | Willa and Edwin Muir |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short stories |
| Publisher | Schocken Books |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Publication place | United States |
Contents
- 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
- 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
