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John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly Introduction: Stories After Kafka
Kafka chronology
Franz Kafka A Hunger Artist (tr. Kessel)
J.G.Ballard The Drowned Giant
Terry Bisson The Cockroach Hat
Michael Blumlein Hymenoptera
Jorge Luis Borges The Lottery in Babylon (tr. Hurley)
T.Coraghessan Boyle The Big Garage
Paul Di Filippo The Jackdaw's Last Case
Carol Emshwiller Report to the Men's Club
Jeffrey Ford Bright Morning
Theodora Goss The Rapid Advance of Sorrow
Eileen Gunn Stable Strategies for Middle Management
Damon Knight The Handler
Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz Receding Horizon
David Mairowitz & Robert Crumb A Hunger Artist
Philip Roth "I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka
Rudy Rucker The 57th Franz Kafka
Carter Scholz The Amount to Carry
Tamar Yellin Kafka in Bronteland
Acknowledgments
Kafka's influence happened, in literary time, very quickly. Before World War II his work was known i
of metaphor, abuse of portmanteau words, and other experiments perhaps typical of all young people.
The person on the street, if she knows Kafka at all, will immediately associate him with the bizarre
We are in mind of an anecdote that Max Brod, Kafka's best friend, tells of a reading Kafka gave. "We
-Frank Kafka, letter to his publisher, Ernst Rowohlt, August 14, 19125
age of forty. He trained in university as a lawyer and eventually found a comfortable position in th
to Felice Bauer (the first engagement was broken off in part because he made advances to her best fr
Because sex was always a fraught matter for him, he was never able to reconcile his sexual desires
Kafka was a student ofYiddish literature, and in his youth championed Yiddish theatre, much to the p
-Franz Kafka, diary entry, June 2,1, 191310
However, it would be a mistake to say that the meanings of Kafka's parables are clear. As the critic
I make no claim to have "corrected" any "errors" of earlier translators, and I take comfort from the
"Kafka" is "kavka" in Czech, meaning "crow" or "jackdaw." Di Filippo's story, which might on the fac
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