Investigations of a dog, and other creatures / Franz Kafka ; in a new translation by Michael Hofmann.
| Author/creator | Kafka, Franz author. |
| Other author | Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New Directions Books, 2017. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | xvi, 239 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Short stories. Selections. English |
| 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...] -- [I really 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] |
| Abstract | A masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most fantastical and visionary short fiction. |
| General note | Translated from the German. |
| Genre/form | Translations. |
| LCCN | 2017008606 |
| ISBN | 9780811226899 paperback alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0811226891 paperback alkaline paper |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | PT2621 .A26 A2 2017 | Due 10/23/2026 | Want This? |