Investigations of a dog, and other creatures / Franz Kafka ; in a new translation by Michael Hofmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924, author.

Contributor:

Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Translations into English.

Kafka, Franz.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Short stories, German--Translations into English.

Short stories, German.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 239 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Books, 2017.

Summary:

A masterful 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]

Notes:

Translated from the German.

ISBN:

9780811226899

0811226891

OCLC:

961008317