The FLUID IDENTITY is the common characteristic of the beings inhabiting this collection of short stories and prose by Franz Kafka: the bard Josephine displays the behavior and anxieties of an artist while simultaneously sharing the drab daily life of the mouse people; two gel balls exhibit dog-like qualities – or have they gradually acquired the characteristics of Blumfeld’s subordinates by following him closely in his free time?
A bridge monologues and shivers at the sight of the first passerby-lover; a hybrid creature, half cat half lamb, desperately experiences its divided nature; a marble wanders aimlessly for a moment, hands behind its back, outside its labyrinth; figures from mythology tear apart their mythical contexts and claim a different role...
The Kafkaesque universe intertwines inseparably with the universe of our lives. Kafka's fantastical beings and the perpetually awkward "I" facing them bring a naked truth to light: as fluid and incomprehensible as reality is, so too is our self fluid and bizarre, a fantastical being stumbling through the darkness of the world.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Kichli
- Original Title
- DIE ERZÄHLUNGEN UND ANDERE AUSGEWÄHLTE PROSA
- Publishers
- Thrush
- Type
- Classic Literature
- Subtitle
- And Other Stories
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 184
- Release Date
- 8/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786185461218
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