A Hunger Artist And Other Stories [EPUB]

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E-Book Overview

Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing mouse, an ape, an inquisitive dog, and a paranoid burrowing creature are among the protagonists, as well as the professional starvation artist. A patient seems to be dying from a metaphysical wound; the war-horse of Alexander the Great steps aside from history and adopts a quiet profession as a lawyer. Fictional meditations on art and artists, and a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafka's philosophy of life, further explore themes that recur in his major novels. Newly translated, and with an invaluable introduction and notes, Kafka's short stories are haunting and unforgettable

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E-Book Information

• Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

• Year: 2,012

• Edition: 1

• City: New York, Oxford

• Pages: 218

• Language: English, German

• Identifier: 0199600929,978-0-19-960092-2,9780199655670,0199655677

• Org File Size: 2,156,077

• Extension: epub

• Tags: Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Translations into English. Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924.

• Toc: Content: The aeroplanes at Brescia --A country doctor: little tales. The new advocate. A country doctor. In the gallery. An ancient manuscript. Before the law. Jackals and Arabs. A visit to the mine. The next village. A message from the emperor. Odradek, or cares of a householder. Eleven sons. A brother's murder. A dream. A report to an academy --The rider on the coal-scuttle --A hunger artist: four stories. First sorrow. A little woman. A hunger artist. Josefine, the singer or the mouse-people --Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor --At the building of the Great Wall of China --The huntsman Gracchus --Investigations of a dog --The burrow --Selected shorter pieces. The bridge. The knock at the courtyard gate. The truth about Sancho Panza. The spinning-top. Cat and mouse. On parables. Give it up! --Aphorisms.