1.      Stach, Reiner, Kafka: The Decisive Years (New York: Harcourt, 2005), 143.

2.      Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (New York: Schocken Books, 1960), 240.

3.      Franz Kafka, Kafka Kay Afsanay, Translator: Masood Nair (Karachi: City Press Book Shop, 2009), 11.

4.      Coralli, Alessia, Perciaccante, Antonio, "Franz Kafka: An emblematic case of co-occurrence of sleep and psychiatric disorder," Sleep Science, 12 April 2016, 70.

5.    Franz Kafka, "Baap Ke Naam Ek Khat," Included in: Kafka Kahaniyan, Translator: Muhammad Asim Butt (e-Kitab, Rekhta, Date not available), 70.

6.      Ibid, 66.

7.      Kafka Franz, Kafka Kahaniyan, Translator: Asim Butt, 91.

8.      Stach, Reiner, Kafka the Decisive Years, (New York: Harcourt, 2005), 113.

9.      Franz Kafka, Kafka Kay Afsanay, Translator: Nasir Masood, 74.

10.     Ibid, 78-79.

11.     Ibid, 79.

12.     Franz Kafka, "Kaya Kalp," Included in: Kafka Kahaniyan, Translator: Muhammad Asim Butt, 143.

13.    Santner, Eric Kafka’s Metamorphosis and the Writing of Abjection in Stanley Corngold, trans, and ed, The Metamorphosis, (New York: Columbia University press, 1988), 197.

14.     Franz Kafka, "Kaya Kalp," Included in: Kafka Kahaniyan, Translator: Muhammad Asim Butt, 162.

15.     Ibid, 158.

16.     Ibid, 160.

17.     Peter Andre Alt, The Eternal Son (Northwestern University Press, 2018), 18.

18.     Brod, Max, Kafka Franz, The Diaries: (1910-1923) (New York: Schocken Books, 1988), 222.