Book Discussion Group: Franz Kafka: Selected Short Stories

Location : Conchas Park grass - south corner near Parsifal St.

To Bring: book, cushion or lawn-chair. (grass maybe wet). Note that we will move over to adjoining covered picnic tables if rain wants to join in.

Book Discussion Group. We will discuss 15 of Kafka's stories (listed below). Kafka: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." One of the few books that knocked me off my stool and made me think.
Please read all 15 stories and be prepared to talk about them. This is a discussion, not a lecture. This may be our last lawn discussion. Future events probably at Green Jeans.

Ground rules:
The Judgment
The Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony b
A Country Doctor
An Old Manuscript (also known as "A Message from the Emperor")
Before the Law
A Hunger Artist
First Sorrow
The Burrow
The Hunter Gracchus
The Great Wall of China
Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk
The Cares of a Family Man
A Report to an Academy