Metamorphosis and the Trial

A man wakes to find himself transformed into an insect, and his family must decide what to do with what remains of him. Elsewhere, Josef K. is arrested for a crime no one will name, drawn into a legal system that follows its own impenetrable logic. Together, Metamorphosis and The Trial bring Franz Kafka's two best-known stories into one volume, each built around a predicament its central character cannot reason or escape their way out of. Read alongside each other, they offer a close look at absurdity, isolation and the strange workings of systems larger than any one person.