Five Kafka stories in a parallel text edition with very competent, user-friendly translations. It was an intense thrill to read Kafka in German (although I'd have struggled abysmally without the English to hand) and I didn't find K's style as convoluted as I had been led to believe it was. I have read all his stories before in translation, but of these five (The Judgement, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor, A Report to an Academy), it was "A Country Doctor" that impressed me the most this time around with its out-of-control narrative and increasingly hallucinatory tone. ( )