The burrow
Subtitle: posthumously published short fiction
By: Franz Kafka ; a new translation by Michael Hofmann
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator
Series: Penguin modern classics; Penguin modern classics
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780141395609
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Czech authors; German fiction; Translations into English; German Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia." -- rear cover.
Notes: Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: In the city (March 1911); title: The village schoolmaster (December 1914-January 1915); title: A young and ambitious student (January 1915); title: Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor (February-March 1915); title: The bridge (December 1916); title: Eexts on the Hunter Gracchus theme (December 1916 and April 1917); title: Yesterday there came to me a swoon (February 1917); title: I really should have ... (February 1917); title: Building the Great Wall of China (March 1917); title: It was one summer ... (March 1917); title: My business (March 1917); title: A cross-breed (April 1917); title: K. was a great juggler (August 1917); title: New lamps (August 1917); title: An everyday confusion (October 1917); title: The truth about Sancho Panza (October 1917); title: The silence of sirens (October 1917); title: A society of scoundrels (October 1917); title: Visiting the dead (August 1920); title: Night (August 1920); title: Our little town (August 1920); title: On the matter of our laws (August 1920); title: The troop levy (August 1920); title: Poseidon (September 1920); title: Friendship (September 1920); title: Our city coat of arms (September 1920); title: The helmsman (September 1920); title: The test (September 1920); title: The vulture (October 1920); title: Little fable (October 1920); title: The spinning top (December 1920); title: The departure (February 1922); title: The advoctes (Spring 1922); title: In our synagogue (1920-22); title: Once upon a time there was a game (June 1922); title: Investigations of a dog (Summer 1922, October 1922); title: The married couple (October 1922); title: A commentary (November-December 1922); title: On parables (December 1922); title: Homecome (December 19223-January 1924); title: The burrow (Winter 1923-4).