A very short work by this writer ends with a character saying "No, in reality: in parable you have   lost." One of this man's stories centers on a machine that inscribes the law that a criminal broke on  his body. This author of "On Parables" and "In the Penal Colony" also wrote a novel in which the   protagonist, who kisses Fräulein Bürstner, never learns of the crime that he is charged with. Another  one of this author's characters is paralyzed by an apple; that character, Gregor Samsa, wakes up  and finds that he has transformed into an insect. Name this Czech author of The Trial  and "The  Metamorphosis".
A very short work by this writer ends with a character saying "No, in reality: in parable you have   lost." One of this man's stories centers on a machine that inscribes the law that a criminal broke on  his body. This author of "On Parables" and "In the Penal Colony" also wrote a novel in which the   protagonist, who kisses Fräulein Bürstner, never learns of the crime that he is charged with. Another  one of this author's characters is paralyzed by an apple; that character, Gregor Samsa, wakes up  and finds that he has transformed into an insect. Name this Czech author of The Trial  and "The  Metamorphosis".
A very short work by this writer ends with a character saying "No, in reality: in parable you have   lost.