Kafka Short Stories is a brilliant collection of Franz Kafka's influential writing and includes stories like, The Judgement, In the Penal Colony, A Hunger Artist, and so on.A clutch of shocking, unsettling and complex tales that discuss the universal themes like unease, guilt, alienation, isolation, cruelty, shame, sin, redemption, etc., with generous doses of irony and horror. The characters in his stories are hunted and haunted, often in nightmarish situations, trapped in dehumanizing systems, struggling to find meaning and dignity in an insensitive world.