A Drama on the Seashore
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About This Book
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime,A Hunger Artist(1924) explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist. He edited the manuscript just before his death, and these four stories are some of his best known and most powerful work, marking his maturity as a writer. In addition to "First Sorrow," "A Little Woman," and "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse People" is the title story, "A Hunger Artist," which has been called by the critic Heinz Politzer "a perfection, a fatal fulfillment that expresses Kaf...
Chapters (7)
- A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE
- Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- DEDICATION To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee ComtesseWalewska. Homage and remembrances of The Author.
- A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE ADDENDUM
- A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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