A Cage Went in Search of a Bird - Ten Kafkaesque Stories
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| Verlag | Little |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 13,4 x 21,4 x 2,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 260 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780349146416 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34914641EA |
A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death
_Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European_
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new?
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak power fully to the strangeness of being alive today.
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This inspired anthology demonstrates the enduring influence of Franz Kafka's fatalistic worldview and mordant humour ... These stories will do the trick for the Kafka-curious and diehard fans alike Publishers Weekly
