Unearthed by the master Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, this collection comes as a prize and a joy.  Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long.  Lost to English-language readers until now, all are marvels: even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. Has any writer given so many pleasures and mysteries, and both so unstintingly.