One of his novels begins with a chapter titled "The Stoker," and focuses on Karl Rossman.
This author wrote about a man who kills himself after his father sentences him to death by drowning in his short story "The Judgment." In another of his short stories, an official of a prison camp is killed by a device which uses knives to gouge literal sentences in his body. One of his novels begins with a chapter titled "The Stoker," and focuses on Karl Rossman. In addition to "In the Penal Colony" and Amerika, he wrote a short story about the transformation of Gregor Samsa into an insect. For 10 points, name this author of The Trial and "The Metamorphosis."
This author wrote about a man who kills himself after his father sentences him to death by drowning in his short story "The Judgment.
Franz Kafka