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The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
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A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka’s most frightening and visionary short fictionStrange 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 Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime.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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| Weight | 0.182 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1.5 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241372593 |
| About The Author | Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.Michael Hofmann (Translator) Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann. |
A superb translation… alerts us to the strangeness of Kafka's world – often funnier or happier than we give it credit for – without using the word "Kafkaesque", which should be retired as it now means little more than "frustratingly bureaucratic". Kafka's world is richer, and more rewarding than that. | |
| Other text | Kafka's posthumously published short fiction cry out for a critical exegesis… newly translated by Michael Hofmann, the stories collected in The Burrow mingle dark comedy with a proto-surrealist intent to unsettle…excellent new translations |
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