Short stories from Kafka to the Kafkaesque: making strange again

Two new books, Selected Stories and A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, celebrate the writer on the centenary of his death in his own words and those of writers inspired by his workA hundred years after Franz Kafka’s death, two new books testify to his enduring appeal and make the case for reading him afresh.

Some of the most interesting stories in the collection work to harness the latent political anger inherent in Kafka’s portrayal of arbitrary systems of power. Headache by Leone Ross is a truly sinister story that reflects on the prejudices underpinning a healthcare system that consistently fails women of colour. The formula is a generative one, as Kafka’s distinctive world vision is highly compatible with modern life.

The impulse to reveal a different Kafka to the one we think we know is at the heart of this new translation. Over the years the irregularities in the original writings have been smoothed over; Kafka’s friend and posthumous editor Max Brod did his best to clean up the notebooks, while subsequent English translations have sought to standardise and improve the text.

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