A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love
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A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love

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A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love

About this book

Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langer's friend and mentor Franz Kafka. Langer and Kafka hailed from the same middle-class, assimilated, Jewish Prague background and shared a mutual interest in Hasidic culture, literature, and Hebrew. This collaborative translation by Elana and Menachem Wolff brings the fascinating work of Langer - poems as well as an essay on Kafka - to the English-reading public for the first time, and sheds light on a hitherto unexplored relationship.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The New Attorney
  3. A Country Doctor
  4. Seated In The Gallery
  5. An Ancient Manuscript
  6. In Front Of The Law
  7. Jackals And Arabs
  8. A Visit To The Mine
  9. The Next Village
  10. A Message From The Emperor
  11. The Concern Of A Family Man
  12. Eleven Sons
  13. A Fratricide
  14. A Dream
  15. A Report For An Academy
  16. First Pain
  17. A Short Woman
  18. A Hunger Artist
  19. Josephine The Singer, Or The Mousefolk
  20. Translator’s Notes
  21. Praise For The Translation
  22. About The Translator
  23. About Franz Kafka
  24. Copyright