Wedding Preparations in The Country

"Wedding Preparations in the Country" (German: "Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande") is an incomplete work by Franz Kafka which depicts in great detail the journey of the groom, Raban, travelling to the country to meet his future wife, Betty. Written between 1907 and 1908, three fragments with missing pages have survived, and, as with most of Kafka's work, they were published after his death by his friend Max Brod. According to Brod, Kafka's intention was to complete the story as a novel. An English translation of the story appears in The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka.

Works by Franz Kafka
Novels
  • The Trial
  • The Castle
  • Amerika
Short stories
1902–12
  • "Shamefaced Lanky and Impure in Heart"
  • "Description of a Struggle"
  • "Wedding Preparations in the Country"
  • "The Judgment"
  • "The Stoker"
  • "The Metamorphosis"
1914–17
  • "In the Penal Colony"
  • "The Village Schoolmaster" ("The Giant Mole")
  • "Before the Law"
  • "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor"
  • "The Warden of the Tomb"
  • "A Country Doctor"
  • "The Hunter Gracchus"
  • "The Great Wall of China"
  • "A Message from the Emperor"
  • "A Report to an Academy"
  • "A Dream"
  • "Up in the Gallery"
  • "A Fratricide"
  • "The Next Village"
  • "A Visit to a Mine"
  • "Jackals and Arabs"
  • "The Bridge"
  • "The Bucket Rider"
  • "The New Advocate"
  • "An Old Manuscript"
  • "The Knock at the Manor Gate"
  • "Eleven Sons"
  • "My Neighbor"
  • "A Crossbreed"
  • "The Cares of a Family Man"
1917–23
  • "The Refusal"
  • "A Hunger Artist"
  • "Investigations of a Dog"
  • "A Little Woman"
  • "The Burrow"
  • "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk"
  • "A Common Confusion"
  • "The Truth about Sancho Panza"
  • "The Silence of the Sirens"
  • "Prometheus"
  • "The City Coat of Arms"
  • "Poseidon"
  • "Fellowship"
  • "At Night"
  • "The Problem of Our Laws"
  • "The Conscription of Troops"
  • "The Test"
  • "The Vulture"
  • "The Helmsman"
  • "The Top"
  • "A Little Fable"
  • "Home-Coming"
  • "First Sorrow"
  • "The Departure"
  • "Advocates"
  • "The Married Couple"
  • "Give It Up!"
  • "On Parables"
Short story
collections
  • Contemplation (1912)
  • A Hunger Artist (1924)
  • The Complete Stories
  • The Sons
  • The Penal Colony
  • Parables and Paradoxes
  • The Great Wall of China
  • Dearest Father
  • Description of a Struggle
Diaries and
notebooks
  • The Diaries 1910–1923
  • The Blue Octavo Notebooks
  • The Zürau Aphorisms
Letters
  • Letter to His Father
  • Letters to Felice
  • Letters to Ottla
  • Letters to Milena
  • Letters to Family, Friends, and Editors
Professional
writings
  • The Office Writings
  • Bibliography

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    “When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
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    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

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    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)