This author wrote a work whose title character is replaced by a panther after his death, and one in which the protagonist finds some horses in his old pig sty.
The Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies recently put out a new translation of this author's last work, in which the title character's abilities are compared with that of a newcomer to nut-cracking.. One of his short stories tells of a legend in which a dying emperor delivers a message through a messenger who would never be able to find its addressee. The narrator of that story discusses the construction of and reasons for the Great Wall of China. This author wrote a work whose title character is replaced by a panther after his death, and one in which the protagonist finds some horses in his old pig sty. That man is unable to find his patient's fatal wound. The main character of one of his novels first arrives in the title location in a section published as "The Stoker". Besides "A Country Doctor" and "A Hunger Artist", one work by this author features a character who dies with an apple lodged in his back and is unable to send his sister Grete to the Conservatory. For 10 points, name this author of Amerika and The Metamorphosis.
The Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies recently put out a new translation of this author's last work, in which the title character's abilities are compared with that of a newcomer to nut-cracking..
Franz Kafka