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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 FrÃ¤ulein BÃ¼rstner, 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.
Franz Kafka