Start with his short stories. One of the best, and one of my favorite stories by any author, is "A Little Fable": http://www.flashfictiononline.com/fpublic0012-

Start with his short stories. One of the best, and one of my favorite stories by any author, is "A Little Fable": http://www.flashfictiononline.com/fpublic0012-a-little-fable-franz-kafka.html http://www.flashfictiononline.com/fpublic0012-a-little-fable... Then, perhaps, "The Metamorphosis", before or after reading Nabokov's lecture on it.