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The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories

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 Kafka`s essential stories shows the genius at his very best.

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