Kafka's Narrators: A Study of His Stories and Sketches

Introduction: narrator and story 1. The Kafka story: structure and meaning 2. The impersonal narrator of the early tales: 'The judgement' ('Das Urteil'), 'The metamorphosis' ('Die Verwandlung') 3. Officer versus traveller: 'In the penal colony' ('In der Strafkolonie') 4. The breakdown of the impersonal narrator: 'Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor' ('Blumfeld, ein alterer Junggeselle') 5. The identifiable narrator of 'A hunger artist' ('Ein Hungerkunstler') 6. Third-person and first-person fables and parables 7. Last tales: the stories with human characters 8. Last tales: the animal stories Epilogue Notes Index.