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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
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What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a prophet and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to an apartment search 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 a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.
Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a prophet and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.
From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to an apartment search 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 a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.
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trish nguyen
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“gods doorbell, art hotel, and apostrophe’s dream were my favorites of then 10 stories. enjoyable read”aja park
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Matt Bender
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“This is a stellar line up of authors and the stories are skilled and memorable. I found them sufficiently surreal and sadistic to satisfy my expectations that they be Kafkaesque. I, at least for one, went in to this expecting to be disappointed (how could this live up to expectations) and was surprised by the quality and consistency.
Ali Smith and Charlie Kaufman (who was an entirely new author to me) deliver stories that are really in the Kafka sphere. Elif Batuman probably extends Kafka’s tone and cultural influence the most tactically with a story about a would be tenant and an absurd apartment studio and coop board. Tommy Orange’s story probably has the widest scope in his ambition and he successfully touches on issues of identity and victimization with a story that is most distinctively within his own oeuvres.
I would have appreciated a more ambitious introduction and at least some effort to link these authors together, or their approaches and interests as individuals to Kafka. Something along the lines of Joshua Cohen’s essay on the Perils of Reading Kafka would have added a lot of value, but I guess we have Google (and through it I discovered Batuman’s substack article on her essay fyi). There is in fact an excellent introduction of this sort for Batuman’s story, The Board” posted to Electric Literature’s page.”Smo
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About Tommy Orange
With contributions from: Naomi Alderman, Elif Batuman, Joshua Cohen, Charlie Kaufman, Yiyun Li, Tommy Orange, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Leone Ross, and Ali Smith.
The authors in this book have won prizes including The Women's Prize for Fiction, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. From countries including China, the USA, Ireland and the UK, and living now in cities around the globe from Prague to New York City, the authors represent how far-reaching Kafka's influence is across the world.
The authors in this book have won prizes including The Women's Prize for Fiction, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. From countries including China, the USA, Ireland and the UK, and living now in cities around the globe from Prague to New York City, the authors represent how far-reaching Kafka's influence is across the world.
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