卡夫卡的《骑桶者》是一个短小精美的短篇小说。它描写了在第一次世界大战中,奥匈帝国最艰苦的一个冬天里,一个穷得买不起煤的人骑着煤桶去向煤店老板借煤,却被老板娘的围裙扇到了冰山区域,以致永远消失、不复再见的故事。故事无疑是虚构的,但这正是该小说的最大特色。正如米兰·昆德拉所说的,“卡夫卡的巨大贡献并不全在于他跨出了历史发展中决定性的一 Kafka’s ”Riders“ is a short and beautiful short story. It depicts that during World War I the harshest winter of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a poorly-to-be-able man rode a coal barrel to borrow coal from a coal store owner, but he was fanned by the proprietress’s apron to the iceberg area , So forever disappear, no longer goodbye story. The story is undoubtedly fictional, but this is the most prominent feature of the novel. As Milan Kundera put it, ”Kafka’s great contribution does not lie in his determination to take a decisive step in historical development