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 powerfully the fraught peculiarity of our existence. What happens when Kafka''s idionsyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? In this collection of stories, commissioned to commemorate one hundred years since his death, ten of our most celebrated international writers take ideas of Kafka''s - motifs from his stories, titles of his famous works, or unfinished fragments left behind in his Blue Octavo Notebooks - and run with them to make something new.

About the author

The authors in this book have won prizes including the Pulitzer Prize, 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 many others, including the Booker 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.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Alderman, Alderman Naomi, Elif Batuman, Joshua Cohen, Charlie Kaufman, Kaufman Charlie, Yiyun Li, Li Yiyun, Tommy Orange, Oyeyem, Helen Oyeyemi, Oyeyemi Helen, Keith Ridgway, Ridgway Keith, Leone Ross, Ross Leone, Ali Smith
• Assisted by: Becca Rothfeld (Introduction)
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9780349146423
• ISBN: 978-0-349-14642-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary