Research Catalog

Title

A hunger artist and other stories / Franz Kafka ; translated by Joyce Crick ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.

Author

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Crick, Joyce.
• Robertson, Ritchie.

Description

lii, 218 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

A unique anthology of Kafka's stories and other short pieces by prize-winning translator Joyce Crick, with invaluable introduction,notes, and other editorial material by Kafka scholar Ritchie Robertson.

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Short stories
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlv]-xlix).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 at the courtyard gate. The truth about Sancho Panza. The spinning-top. Cat and mouse. On parables. Give it up! -- Aphorisms.

ISBN

• 0199600929 (pbk.)
• 9780199600922 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 752069008
• SCSB-11005704

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library