A Cage Went in Search of a Bird Ten Kafkaesque Stories

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Synopsis

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 powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

Book details

Author:
Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Joshua Cohen
ISBN:
9780349146393
Related ISBNs:
9780349146409
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2024-05-29
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2024
Copyright by:
Becca Rothfeld 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction