<p> This study, an attempt to understand and define some of Franz Kafka's literary aims, rests mainly on an examination of the story "Forschungen eines hundes" . The thoughts which appear in this story, and the methods which Kafka us s to express these thoughts, are compared with certain ideas and modes of expression which appear in his notebooks , in the story "Josefine die Sangerin oder das Volk der Muse" and in some of the other fiction. </p> <p> Because of the extreme divergence in the interpretations of Kafks's works , there will be in this study no discussion or the secondary literature. </p> <p> Works of criticism have, however, not been disgarded, and list of consulted texts ill be found in the Bibliography. </p> / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)