Drawing directly on original manuscripts, this collection comprises the major short stories published after Kafka's death. It includes "The Great Wall of China", "Blumfeld", "An Elderly Bachelor", Investigations of a Dog and his great sequences of aphorisms, with fables and parables on subjects ranging from the legend of "Prometheus" to the "Tower of Babel". Allegorical, disturbing and possessing a dream-like clarity, these writings are quintessential Kafka.