A Cage Went in Search of a Bird - Ten Kafkaesque Stories

A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Few writers have inspired as much interpretation, adaptation and imitation as he has - from films to novels to memes - and very few artists in any field have created work that captures so resonantly the fraught peculiarity of our existence. What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? 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 anxiety attacks, these specially commissioned stories speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

General

Imprint:	Abacus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2024
Authors:	Ali Smith • Tommy Orange • Naomi Alderman • Helen Oyeyemi • Keith Ridgway • Yiyun Li • Charlie Kaufman • Elif Batuman
Dimensions:	222 x 138mm (L x W)
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-14640-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-349-14640-3
Barcode:	9780349146409

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