Additionally, each author discusses Kafka’s writing, its relevance, its personal influence, and Kafka’s enduring legacy. Paul Di Filippo’s journalist by day, costumed crime-fighter by night, copes with the bizarre amidst the mundane.Īlso includes Kafka’s classic story “The Hunger Artist,” in a brand-new translation, as well as an illustrated version by legendary cartoonist R. Carol Emshwiller invents an exclusively male society faced with its first (mostly) female member. In Philip Roth’s alternate history, Kafka survives World War II and immigrates to America, Jorge Luis Borges envisions a labyrinthine public lottery that evolves into bureaucratically-mandated mysticism. ISBN: 9781616960490 Published: 2011 Available Format (s): Trade Paperback The tourist shops of Prague sell dozens of items commemorating Franz Kafka.

Kafkaesque explores dystopian, comedic, and ironic fictions inspired by Franz Kafka’s work. Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, eds. Even those who have never read a word of his fiction know enough to describe their tribulations with bureaucracy as “Kafkaesque.” Yet modern culture has embraced the stark ideas and vivid imagery of his work. Here’s the back cover blurb (ToC to follow):įranz Kafka died in obscurity in 1924, having published a handful of odd stories in little-known central European literary magazines. What do you think of the book? Are you looking forward to it? Why or why not? We’ve put all the information below, but we want to start this all off with a few questions for all of you: A very interesting anthology is coming out from Tachyon Publications this November.

Kafkaesque by John Kessel