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A Hunger Artist & Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love: Volume 20
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Artikel-Nr:
9781550718676
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.07.2014
Seiten:
150
Autor:
Thor Polson
Gewicht:
272 g
Format:
201x124x18 mm
Serie:
20, Essential Translations
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Thor Polson has a master's 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 ?itions du Norot. Menachem Wolff is a dentist in private practice.
Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and 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.