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.

A propos de l'auteur

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. Hotel World was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize in 2001 and her latest novel, The Accidental, won the 2006 Whitbread Novel Award. Ali reviews regularly for the Guardian, the Scotsman and the TLS.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: 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
• Collaboration: Becca Rothfeld (Introduction)
• Edition: Abacus
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9780349146423
• ISBN: 978-0-349-14642-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary