For 10 points, identify this Czech author of The Trial, The Castle, and a work about Gregor Samsa, "The Metamorphosis."
In one work by this man, a "Northerner" traveling through the desert is given a pair of rusty scissors with which to kill a caravan, while another work sees Rotpeter [ROTE-pay-ter] decide to cease being an ape. In addition to "Jackals and Arabs" and "Report to an Academy"Â¸ this man wrote such short stories as "Josephine the Singer," "The Judgement," and "The Hunger Artist." Unfinished novels by him include one about a land surveyor assigned to work as a janitor by bureaucrats and. one featuring the artist Titorelli and the bank manager Josef K. For 10 points, identify this Czech author of The Trial, The Castle, and a work about Gregor Samsa, "The Metamorphosis." Â  
In one work by this man, a "Northerner" traveling through the desert is given a pair of rusty scissors with which to kill a caravan, while another work sees Rotpeter [ROTE-pay-ter] decide to cease being an ape.
Franz Kafka 