Investigations of a Dog: And Other Creatures

✍ Scribed by Kafka, Franz

• Book ID: 100148920
• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 215 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0811226905

✦ Synopsis

In the city -- The village schoolmaster -- [A young and ambitious student ...] -- [Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor ...] -- [The bridge] -- [Texts on the Hunter Gracchus Theme] -- [Yesterday there came to me a swoon ...] -- [I really should have ...] -- Building the Great Wall of China -- [It was one summer ...] -- [My business ...] -- A cross-breed -- [K. was a great juggler ...] -- [New lamps] -- [An everyday confusion] -- [The truth about Sancho Panza] -- [The silence of the sirens] -- [A society of scoundrels] -- [Visiting the dead] -- [Night] -- [Our little town] -- On the matter of our laws -- [The troop Levy] -- [Poseidon] -- [Friendship] -- [Our city coat of arms] -- [The Helmsman] -- Consolidation -- [The test] -- [The vulture] -- [Little fable] -- [The spinning top] -- [The departure] -- [Advocates] -- In our synagogue ... -- Once upon a time there was a game ... -- [Investigations of a dog] -- The married couple -- A commentary -- [On parables] -- Homecoming -- [The burrow].;A masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most fantastical and visionary short fiction.