A cage went in search of a bird : ten Kafkaesque stories
(Book)

2024/06/04

"What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers. Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He's been hailed a prophet and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting beliefsystems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment. From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God, to an apartment search that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare, to apopulation experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling, and haunting. Inspired by a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today"--,Provided by publisher.