For 10 points, name this German-speaking author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
One story by this author ends with a panther being put into a cage once occupied by the starving title character. Another of his stories focuses on an execution device that accidentally kills the Officer. Besides A Hunger Artist and In the Penal Colony, this man wrote a novel that sees Willem and Franz arrest and execute Josef K., but he is best known for a work about salesman Gregor Samsa. For 10 points, name this German-speaking author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis.
One story by this author ends with a panther being put into a cage once occupied by the starving title character.
Franz Kafka