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A hunger artist and other stories

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction; Short stories; Classic fiction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 12/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $18.95
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'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' 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.