Strange beasts, sinister places, absurd bureaucrats and night terrors populate this collection of short fiction by Franz Kafka, all of it unpublished during his lifetime and all of it rendered here in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann. The pieces range widely in scale — some barely a page, others considerably more substantial — but none loses its grip. From the gleeful miniature horror of ‘Little Fable’ to the off-kilter humour of ‘Investigations of a Dog’, from the elaborate waking nightmare of ‘Building the Great Wall of China’ to the creeping paranoia of ‘The Burrow’, where a nameless creature’s labyrinthine hiding place becomes a prison of its own making, these matchless works confirm Kafka as one of the most frightening and visionary writers of short fiction.
ISBN 13: 9780241372593
Author: Franz Kafka
