Malcolm Pasleys translations, together with those in a forthcoming companion volume, The Transformation (Metamorphosis) and Other Stories, are distinctive in that they illuminate Kafkas life as well as his art by presenting the works in the sequence in which they were written. Unlike other editions popularly available, this one has been prepared directly from the authors manuscripts. In its fidelity to the text it vastly alters our received versions of many of Kafkas greatest works, besides correcting numerous errors of detail. This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka, including Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, The Great Wall of China and Investigations of a Dog, together with The Collected Aphorisms and He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary