The Complete Stories (forword by John Updike)

Schelesen; Spring: Again in Prague.

[Spring: Felice Bauer married.]

Spring: Engagement to Julie Wohryzek (broken November 1919).

May: Publication of In the Penal Colony.

Fall: Publication of A Country Doctor.

November: "Letter to His Father" written.

Winter: "He," collection of aphorisms, written. Schelesen, with Max Brod.

1920 January 1920 to October 15, 1921: Gap in diaries.

Sick leave from Workers' Accident Insurance Institute. Meran.

End of March: Meets Gustav Janouch. Meran.

Meets Milena Jesenská-Pollak, Czech writer (Vienna). Correspondence.

Summer and fall: Prague. Writing stories.

December: Tatra Mountains (Matliary). Meets Robert Klopstock.

1921 October 15: Note in diary that K. had given all his diaries to Milena.

[Kafka's son by Crete Bloch dies in Munich.]

Until September: Tatra Mountains sanatorium; then Prague; Milena.

1921-24 Stories written, collected in A Hunger Artist.

1922 January to September: The Castle written.

February: Prague.

Spring: "A Hunger Artist" written.

May: Last meeting with Milena.

End of June to September: In Planá on the Luschnitz with sister Ottla. Prague.

Summer: "Investigations of a Dog" written.

1923 Prague.

July: In Müritz (with sister Elli); in a vacation camp of the Berlin Jewish People's Home, meets Dora Dymant [Diamant].

Prague, Schelesen (Ottla).

End of September: With Dora Dymant in Berlin-Steglitz; later moves, with Dora, to Grunewaldstrasse.

Attends lectures at the Berlin Academy (Hochschule) for Jewish Studies.

Winter: "The Burrow" written.

K. and Dora move to Berlin-Zehlendorf.

A Hunger Artist sent to publisher.

1924 Spring: "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" written.

Brought as a patient from Berlin to Prague.

April 10: To Wiener Wald Sanatorium, Professor Hajek's clinic in Vienna; then sanatorium in Kierling, near Vienna (with Dora Dymant and Robert Klopstock).

June 3: Death in Kierling; burial June 11, in the Jewish cemetery in Prague-Straschnitz.

Publication of A Hunger Artist.

1942 Death of K.'s sister Ottla in Auschwitz. The other two sisters also perished in German concentration camps.

1944 Death of Crete Bloch at the hands of a Nazi soldier.

Death of Milena in a German concentration camp.

1952 August: Death of Dora Dymant in London.

1960 Death of Felice Bauer.

SELECTED WRITINGS ON KAFKA

Adorno, Theodor W. "Aufzeichnungen zu Kafka," Die Neue Rundschau, LXIV (1953).

Anders, Günther. Kafka -- Pro und Contra. Die Prozess-Umerlagen. Munich, 1951.

——-. "Reflections on My Book 'Kafka-Pro und Contra,' " Mosaic (Manitoba), III, No. 4 (1970).

Asher, J. A. "Turning Points in Kafka's Stories," The Modern Language Review, LVII (1962).

Auden, W. H. "K's Quest." In The Kxfka Problem, ed. A. Flores. New York, 1946.

Bauer, Roger. "Kafka à la lumière de la religiosité juive," Dieu vivant, IX (1947).

Baum, Oskar. "Erinnerungen an Franz Kafka," Literarische Welt, IV (1928).

Beck, Evelyn T. Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work, Madison, Wisc., 1971. (Dissertation.)

Benjamin, Walter. "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death" and "Some Reflections on Kafka." In Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn. New York, 1969.

Bense, Max. Die Theorie Kafkas. Cologne and Berlin, 1952.

Bergman, S. Hugo. "Franz Kafka," Orot, VII (1969). In Hebrew.

Binder, Hartmut. Motiv und Gestaltung bei Franz Kafka. Bonn, 1966.

Bin Gurion, Emanuel. "Al Kafka," Moznayim, 1943. In Hebrew.

Blanchot, Maurice. "Kafka." In La Part du feu. Paris, 1949.

——-. "La solitude essentielle," La Nouvelle Revue Française, I (1953).

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Kafka and His Precursors." In Labyrinths. New York, 1964.

Born, Jürgen. "Franz Kafka und seine Kritiker." In Kafka Symposion. Berlin, 1965.

——-. "Kafka's Parable 'Before the Law': Reflections Towards a Positive Interpretation," Mosaic (Manitoba), III, No. 4 (1970).

Braybrooke, Neville. "The Geography of the Soul: St. Teresa and Kafka," The Dalhousie Review, 1959.

Brod, Max. "Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Kafka," Prisma, XI (1947).

——-. Franz Kafkas Glauben und Lehre. Winterthur, 1948.

——-. "Kleist und Kafka," Welt und Wert (Munich), February 1949.

——-. Franz Kafka als wegweisende Gestalt. St. Gallen, 1951.

——-. "Kafka, pro und contra," Neue Schweizer Rundschau (Zurich), May 1952.

Buber, Martin. "Ein Wort über Franz Kafka." In Kampf um Israel. Berlin, 1933.

——-. "Kafka and Judaism." In Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. R. Gray. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962.