About the book: 2007 / Franz Kafka is one of the pillars of world literature, the author of one of the main novels of the twentieth century, “The Castle,” as well as the novels “The Trial,” "America", many stories. And in our time, Kafka remains one of the most read authors. Kafka’s dreamlike, unsteady artistic world captures the reader in a recognizable and unrecognizable space, awakens and extremely enhances sensations. This edition includes one of Kafka’s most mysterious masterpieces - the story “The Verdict”, which is being published in a new translation by M. Rudnitsky. Autobiographical evidence from Kafka’s epistolary heritage helps to penetrate into the background of this story, in particular “Letters to Felicia” - his letters to his fiancée, in the dynamics of the development of intrigue not inferior to a fascinating love story