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    A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

    A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick (Translator), Ritchie Robertson (Other)


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    Joyce Crick taught German at University College London until her retirement. She has written on Kafka's first English translators, Willa and Edwin Muir, and for OWC she has translated Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Grimms' Selected Tales, and Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, winner of the Shlegel-Tieck Prize in 2000. Ritchie Robertson is the author of the Very Short Introduction to Kafka. For OWC he has translated Hofmann's The Golden Pot and Other Stories and introduced and annotated editions of Kafka, Freud, and Schnitzler. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.

    Brief Biography

    Date of Birth:
    July 3, 1883
    Date of Death:
    June 3, 1924
    Place of Birth:
    Prague, Austria-Hungary
    Place of Death:
    Vienna, Austria
    Education:
    German elementary and secondary schools. Graduated from German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague.

    Table of Contents

    THE AEROPLANES AT BRESCIA
    A COUNTRY DOCTOR: LITTLE TALES
    The New Advocate
    A Country Doctor
    In the Gallery
    An Ancient Manuscript
    Before the Law
    Jackals and Arabs
    A Visit to the Mine
    The Next Village
    A Message from the Emperor
    Odradek, or Cares of a Householder
    Eleven Sons
    A Brother's Murder
    A Dream
    A Report to an Academy
    THE RIDER ON THE COAL-SCUTTLE
    A HUNGER ARTIST: FOUR STORIES
    First Sorrow
    A Little Woman
    A Hunger Artist
    Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse-People
    BLUMFELD, AN ELDERLY BACHELOR
    AT THE BUILDING OF THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
    THE HUNTSMAN GRACCHUS
    INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG
    THE BURROW
    SELECTED SHORTER PIECES
    The Bridge
    The Knock on the Courtyard Gate
    TheTruth about Sancho Panza
    The Spinning-Top
    Cat and Mouse
    On Parables
    Give it up!
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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. Fictional meditations on art and artists, and a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafka's philosophy of life, further explore themes that recur in his major novels. Newly translated, and with an invaluable introduction and notes, Kafka's short stories are haunting and unforgettable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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