The title character of this story describes his situation as an "infinitely wide and spacious stair" on which he has "been turned into a butterfly," after which he urges his interrogator not to laugh. The title character's room features a picture of a bushman hiding behind a
The title character of this story describes his situation as an "infinitely wide and spacious stair" on which he has "been turned into a butterfly," after which he urges his interrogator not to laugh. The title character's room features a picture of a bushman hiding behind a shield and aiming a spear at him. The title of this work also names a "fragment" consisting of a dialogue in which that character expresses bewilderment that his interlocutor knows nothing about him and reveals that he is fifteen hundred years old. The title character's arrival is announced by a dove speaking into the ear of Salvatore, the Burgomaster of Riva, to whom he narrates his death from following a chamois off of a precipice. FTP, name this short story about a dead man from the Black Forest who is condemned to sail the earthly seas, written by Franz Kafka.
The title character of this story describes his situation as an "infinitely wide and spacious stair" on which he has "been turned into a butterfly," after which he urges his interrogator not to laugh.
{“The Hunter Gracchus} ” [or “ {Der Jäger Gracchus} ”]