Hunger Artist & Other Stories / Poems & Songs of Love
Thor Polson
ISBN: 9781550718676
Vydavatelství: Guernica Editions
Rok vydání: 2014
Vazba: Paperback
Počet stran: 150
Původní cena: 552 Kč
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Kafkas writings are characterised by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humour, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. "Poems & Songs of Love" is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langers friend and mentor Franz Kafka. Langer and Kafka hailed from the same middle-class, assimilated, Jewish Prague background and shared a mutual interest in Hasidic culture, literature, and Hebrew. This collaborative translation by Elana and Menachem Wolff brings the fascinating work of Langer -- poems as well as an essay on Kafka -- to the English-reading public for the first time, and sheds light on a hitherto unexplored relationship.