The title character has a conversation with the Burgomaster of Riva while aboard a death boat in this author's The Hunter Gracchus. In one story by him, Red Peter is an ape who trains himself to act enough like a human to be a music hall performer. Another of his stories ends with The Officer trying to write the words "Be Just" on himself with a torture machine. Those stories are A Report to the Academy and In the Penal Colony. Josef K. never learns what crime he is accused of in one novel by this author. One of his nov
The title character has a conversation with the Burgomaster of Riva while aboard a death boat in this author's The Hunter Gracchus. In one story by him, Red Peter is an ape who trains himself to act enough like a human to be a music hall performer. Another of his stories ends with The Officer trying to write the words "Be Just" on himself with a torture machine. Those stories are A Report to the Academy and In the Penal Colony. Josef K. never learns what crime he is accused of in one novel by this author. One of his novellas opens with Gregor Samsa waking to find he has been transformed into an insect. For 10 points, name this author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
The title character has a conversation with the Burgomaster of Riva while aboard a death boat in this author's The Hunter Gracchus.
Franz Kafka