A review by drewsof
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories by Franz Kafka

4.0

A lovely reintroduction to Kafka, beyond that most famous story about the man-bug. A recent SMDB guest mused that Kafka got distorted by his translators, burdened with Christian allegory etc, when he was actually quite a funny and human writer... and these Alexander Starritt translations prove the latter to be very true indeed. My favorites were honestly the truly short tales, the ones only a page or two or three in length -- although "In the Penal Colony" is as fantastic a story as any you'll find in a modern author's oeuvre too.