What's the best way to go through an author's short

I doubt Kafka composed his stories to be read in any particular order.

I prefer to read them in chronological order so you can see how the author's style and interests develop over time.

>>10002113
This.
It was pretty interesting with Lovecraft.

>>10002113
This.
It's fascinating when you get towards the end of an author's bibliography and see their downward spiral happen. Poe comes to mind in this regard.

>>10002113
That is an interesting approach, but not recommended if the author was particularly productive in the medium, or if he sucked at first.

>>10002073
Well, if we are talking about a collection composed by the author (such as Borges' "Aleph" or Joyce's Dubliners) I prefer reading it in more or less one go. A pause still won't really hurt the experience, but such collections are usually more cohesive than mere selections, they are a deliberately structured whole. In Aleph for example you can see how Borges approaches the same themes in different ways, there's the contrast between the first and second story etc. A selection or complete works, on the other hand, lack such structural nuance, and a pause in reading will be less of a problem. (The editors of selected stories often do try to achieve an effective structure, but it obviously isn't the artist's work and it can't be as successful.)