A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love - Volume 20

Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langer's friend and mentor Franz Kafka. Langer and Kafka hailed from the same middle-class, assimilated, Jewish Prague background and shared a mutual interest in Hasidic culture, literature, and Hebrew. This collaborative translation by Elana and Menachem Wolff brings the fascinating work of Langer - poems as well as an essay on Kafka - to the English-reading public for the first time, and sheds light on a hitherto unexplored relationship.

About the author

Thor Polson has a master's degree in German literature from Middlebury College, and his other writings include Childsong, a novel published by Athena Press of London. Elana Wolff has published seven previous books with Guernica Editions and a selected bilingual collection of poems with ?itions du Norot. Menachem Wolff is a dentist in private practice.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thor Polson (Translation), Elana Wolff (Translation), Menachem Wolff (Translation)
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781550718676
• ISBN: 978-1-55071-867-6
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 201 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Essential Translations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies