In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafkas entire opus of short proseincluding works published in the authors brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and lettersfor narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes Transformed is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafkas signature stories, Die Verwandlung, commonly rendered in English as The Metamorphosis. Composed of short, black comic parables, fables, fairy tales, and reflections, Konundrums also includes classic stories like In the Penal Colony, Kafkas prescient foreshadowing of the nightmare of the Twentieth Century, refreshing the writers mythic storytelling powers for a new generation of readers.