Informationen zum Autor The authors in this book have won prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize. From Scotland, Ireland, China and the USA, living now in cities from Prague to London to New York City, the authors represent how far-reaching Kafka's influence is, and their stories showcase the rich and varied inspiration he has offered to writers all over the world. Klappentext A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death Vorwort A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death Zusammenfassung A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Few writers have inspired as much interpretation, adaptation and imitation as he has - from films to novels to memes - and very few artists in any field have created work that captures so resonantly the fraught peculiarity of our existence. What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these specially commissioned stories speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.

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A collection of brand-new short stories written by major international writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

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The authors in this book have won prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize. From Scotland, Ireland, China and the USA, living now in cities from Prague to London to New York City, the authors represent how far-reaching Kafka's influence is, and their stories showcase the rich and varied inspiration he has offered to writers all over the world.

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A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death

Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature.

What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population 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.