| Description |
xvi, 239 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Amasterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most fantasticaland visionary short fiction. |
| Contents |
In the city -- The village schoolmaster -- [A young and ambitious student...] -- [Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor...] -- [The bridge] -- Texts on the Hunter Gracchus Theme] -- [Yesterday there came to me a swoon...] -- [Ireally should have] -- Building the Great Wall of China -- [It was one summer...] -- [My business...] -- A cross-breed -- [K. was a great juggler...] -- [New lamps] -- [An everyday confusion] -- [The truth about Sancho Panza] -- [The silence of the sirens] -- [A society of scoundrels] -- [Visiting the dead] -- [Night] -- [Our little town] -- On the matter of our laws -- [The troop Levy] -- [Poseidon] -- [Friendship] -- [Our city coat of arms] -- [The Helmsman] -- Consolidation -- [The test] -- [The vulture] -- [Little fable] -- [The spinning top] -- [The departure] -- [Advocates] -- In our synagogue... -- Once upon a time there was a game... -- [Investigations of a dog] -- The married couple -- A commentary -- [On parables] -- Homecoming -- [The burrow] |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. (OCoLC)fst00073986
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Short stories, German -- Translations into English.
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Short stories, German. (OCoLC)fst01117202
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
9780811226899 (alk. paper) |
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0811226891 (alk. paper) |
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