The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press Classics)
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New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth centurys greatest and most influential writers Kafka whose name has generated an adjective is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark enigmatic stories for the absurd nightmares he depicts his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from A Hunger Artist to The Verdict. But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny fresh stories and The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man contains all the aspects of this genius: the wit and the grit; the horror and the humour; the longing and the laughing. They range from bizarre two-sentence stories about Don Quixote to the famous brutal depiction of violence and justice that is In the Penal Colony. In a nimble new translation by the acclaimed Alexander Starritt this collection of Kafkas essential stories shows the genius at his very best.
