A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love
Thor Polson author Elana Wolff author Menachem Wolff author Thor Polson translator Elana Wolff translator Menachem Wolff translator Thor Polson editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Guernica Editions,Canada
Published:1st Jul '14
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Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langer's 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.
ISBN: 9781550718676
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150 pages