The Next Village

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The Next Village is a short story by Franz Kafka written between 1917 and 1923. The story presents a grandfather's comment that life is too short even to get to the neighbouring village.

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Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.

v • d • e Works by Franz Kafka Novels The Trial · The Castle · Amerika Short stories 1904-12 Description of a Struggle · Wedding Preparations in the Country · The Judgment · Contemplation · The Stoker · The Metamorphosis 1914-17 In the Penal Colony · The Village Schoolmaster (The Giant Mole) · Before the Law · Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor · The Warden of the Tomb · A Country Doctor · The Hunter Gracchus · The Great Wall of China · A Message from the Emperor · A Report to an Academy · A Dream · Up in the Gallery · A Fratricide · The Next Village · A Visit to a Mine · Jackals and Arabs · The Bridge · The Bucket Rider · The New Advocate · An Old Manuscript · The Knock at the Manor Gate · Eleven Sons · My Neighbor · A Crossbreed (A Sport) · The Cares of a Family Man 1917-23 The Refusal · A Hunger Artist · Investigations of a Dog · A Little Woman · The Burrow · Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk · A Common Confusion · The Truth about Sancho Panza · The Silence of the Sirens · Prometheus · The City Coat of Arms · Poseidon · Fellowship · At Night · The Problem of Our Laws · The Conscription of Troops · The Test · The Vulture · The Helmsman · The Top · A Little Fable · Home-Coming · First Sorrow · The Departure · Advocates · The Married Couple · Give it Up! · On Parables Short story collections The Complete Stories · The Sons · The Penal Colony · Parables and Paradoxes · The Great Wall of China · Dearest Father Diaries and notebooks The Diaries 1910-1923 · The Blue Octavo Notebooks Letters Letter to His Father · Letters to Felice · Letters to Ottla · Letters to Milena · Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors Bibliography