Franz Kafka: Collected stories

It had a rather straddling gait and maintained that it was not made for those narrow paths.’) No story of those years shows more clearly how far Kafka has travelled from his earlier concerns and practices than the one called ‘The Cares of a Family Man’. A drama is being enacted here, but it is secret, muffled, hardly aware of itself, as in Joyce’s ‘Eveline’. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir Stories unpublished in Kafka’s Lifetime Description of a Struggle And people in their Sunday best Stroll about, swaying over the gravel Under this enormous sky Finally the servant feels cut off from all sides and realizes – something which, had he been slightly less stupid, he might have realized from the beginning – that he will be tired out long before the assistant.