"Fellowship" (German: "Gemeinschaft") is a

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

. Five people appear to enjoy being a group, but when a sixth person hopes to join, he is refused admittance. He perseveres, and after some time the others come to respect his interest in the group, but they still reject him. In his ''

Letters to Felice ''Letters to Felice'' is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer from 1912 to 1917. Schocken Books acquired these letters from Felice Bauer in 1955, in addition to roughly half of Kafka's letters to Grete Bloch, Bauer's fr ...

'' Kafka referred to the story as autobiographical in nature. Michael Greenberg has argued that this story is about the unavoidable paradox involved in needing human contact.''The Terror of Art: Kafka and Modern Literature''. Michael Greenberg. Basic Books, 1969.

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{{Kafka Short stories by Franz Kafka Autobiographical short stories