The burrow : posthumously published short fiction
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The burrow : posthumously published short fiction
(Penguin classics, . Fiction)
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2019, c2017
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The burrow ; and, other stories
Die Erzählungen und andere ausgewählte Prosa
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Note
"This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2017. Reissued in 2019"--T.p. verso
"The present translations were made from the volume Die Erzählungen und andere ausgewählte Prosa (S. Fischer, 1996), edited by Roger Hermes; the texts are from the 1982 manuscript edition, prepared by Jürgen Born, Gerhard Neumann, Malcolm Pasley and Jost Schillemeit."--P. [vii]
Contents of Works
- In the city (March 1911)
- The village schoolmaster (December 1914-January 1915)
- A young and ambitious student-- (January 1915)
- Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor-- (February-March 1915)
- The bridge (December 1916)
- Texts on the hunter Gracchus theme (December 1916 and April 1917)
- Yesterday there came to me a swoon-- (February 1917)
- I really should have-- (February 1917)
- Building the Great Wall of China (March 1917)
- It was one summer-- (March 1917)
- My business-- (March 1917)
- A cross-breed (April 1917)
- K. was a great juggler-- (August 1917)
- New lamps (August 1917)
- An everyday confusion (October 1917)
- The truth about Sancho Panza (October 1917)
- The silence of the Sirens (October 1917)
- A society of scoundrels (October 1917)
- Visiting the dead (August 1920)
- Night (August 1920)
- Our little town (August 1920)
- On the matter of our laws (August 1920)
- The troop levy (August 1920)
- Poseidon (September 1920)
- Friendship (September 1920)
- Our city coat of arms (September 1920)
- The helmsman (September 1920)
- Consolidation (September 1920)
- The test (September 1920)
- The vulture (October 1920)
- Little fable (October 1920)
- The spinning top (December 1920)
- The departure (February 1922)
- Advocates (spring 1922)
- In our synagogue-- (1920-22)
- Once upon a time there was a game-- (June 1922)
- Investigations of a dog (summer 1922, October 1922)
- The married couple (October 1922)
- A commentary (November-December 1922)
- On parables (December 1922)
- Homecoming (December 1923-January 1924)
- The burrow (winter 1923-4)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
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