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A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love

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Kafka's 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 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.

Author Biography:

Thor Polson has a masters degree in German literature from Middlebury College, and his other writings include Childsong, a novel published by Athena Press of London. Elana Wolff has published seven previous books with Guernica Editions and a selected bilingual collection of poems with Editions du Noroit. Menachem Wolff is a dentist in private practice.
Release date Australia
July 1st, 2014
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Translated by Elana Wolff
  • Translated by Menachem Wolff
  • Translated by Thor Polson
Pages
150
Dimensions
125x205x18
ISBN-13
9781550718676
Product ID
22249622

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