gives added weight to the obvious double meaning of Verkehr is Kafka's confession to his friend and biographer Max Brod that when he wrote that final line, he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation." Publications Das Urteil. Eine Geschichte von Franz Kafka. In: Max Brod, Kurt Wolff (ed.): Arkadia. Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst. Leipzig 1913 (first print) Paul Raabe (ed.): Franz Kafka. Sämtliche Erzählungen. pocket book, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main/Hamburg 1970, . Roger Herms (ed.): Franz Kafka. Die Erzählungen. original version. S. Fischer Verlag, 1997, . Wolf Kittler, Hans-Gerd Koch, Gerhard Neumann (ed.): Franz Kafka: Drucke zu Lebzeiten. S. Fischer Verlag. 1996, S. 41-61. Franz Kafka: Das Urteil. illustrations by Karel Hruška. Vitalis 2005, . Notes See also The Judgement, English translation by Ian Johnston. External sources Kafka, Franz (ed. Nahum N. Glatzer). The Complete Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. Short stories by Franz Kafka 1912 short stories Works about judgement