A character who withholds her "gift" of grace notes to get off work insists that her singing is not (*) "piping" in a story by this author, who revealed in a letter that one of his own flawed stories is represented by each of his title "Eleven Sons."
In one story by this author, a servant fights for the right to sweep with one of the two child assistants of a linen factory worker, who contemplates purchasing a dog as he arrives home to discover two menacing bouncing balls. At the end of a story by him, the narrator is told he may hear only ambiguous remarks from "supporters" in a tea house near a grave whose occupant is foretold to rise again and lead his adherents. A character who withholds her "gift" of grace notes to get off work insists that her singing is not (*) "piping" in a story by this author, who revealed in a letter that one of his own flawed stories is represented by each of his title "Eleven Sons." In a story by this author of "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor," a soldier complains about the new Commandant while showing off a machine with components called the Bed and the Harrow, which inscribes the words "Be Just" on the victims it kills. For 10 points, name this author of "Josephine the Singer" and "In the Penal Colony."
In one story by this author, a servant fights for the right to sweep with one of the two child assistants of a linen factory worker, who contemplates purchasing a dog as he arrives home to discover two menacing bouncing balls.
Franz Kafka