"Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa" is a sequel to a Franz Kafka story first published in which year?
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Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa is a sequel to Franz Kafka's short-story "The Metamorphosis", written in 2002 by Marc Estrin.
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The Metamorphosis The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung ) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.
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The Aurelian "The Aurelian" is a short story first written in Russian as "Pil'gram" by Vladimir Nabokov during his exile in Berlin in 1930. After translation by Nabokov and Peter Pertzov it was published in English in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1941. "The Aurelian" is included in Nine Stories and Nabokov's Dozen.
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Jakob Frey Jakob Frey (13 May 1824 ‒ 30 December 1875) was a Swiss writer of short stories about peasant life. He used the pseudonyms "J. Reif", "F. Kuhn", "F. Imhoof", and "J. A."
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Ottla Kafka Ottilie "Ottla" Kafka (29 October 1892 – 1943) was the youngest sister of Franz Kafka. His favourite sister, she was probably also his closest relative and supported him in difficult times. Their correspondence was published as "Letters to Ottla".
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The Ice Palace "The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, "Flappers and Philosophers" (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories" (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960).
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The Lottery in Babylon "The Lottery in Babylon" (or "The Babylon Lottery"; original Spanish "La lotería en Babilonia") is a fantasy short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It first appeared in 1941 in the literary magazine "Sur", and was then included in the 1941 collection "The Garden of Forking Paths" ("El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan"), which in turn became the part one of "Ficciones" (1944).
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The Warden of the Tomb The Warden of the Tomb (Der Gruftwächter) is an expressionist play by Franz Kafka. Written in the winter of 1916-1917, it was published for the first time in "Description of a Struggle".
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Schocken Books Schocken Books is an offspring of the "Schocken Verlag", a publishing company that was established in Berlin in 1931 with a second office in Prague by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y. Agnon, among others.
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Croesus and Fate "Croesus and Fate" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy that is a retelling of a Greek legend, classically told by Herodotus, and Plutarch, about the king Croesus. It was first published in 1886 by Tolstoy's publishing company "The Intermediary". Tolstoy's version is shorter than that by Herodotus, and Tolstoy's characterization of Croesus was designed to parallel the title character in his 1886 novella "The Death of Ivan Ilych".
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Marianne and Mark Marianne and Mark (1960) by Catherine Storr is a sequel to "Marianne Dreams" (1958). It and continues the story of the eponymous characters. The novel has far less basis in fantasy than the first book with Storr focusing on the trials of growing up rather than magical happenings, although there is arguably a fantastic subtext in "Marianne and Mark".
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A Report to an Academy "A Report to an Academy" (German: "Ein Bericht für eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly "Der Jude", along with another of Kafka's stories, "Jackals and Arabs" ("Schakale und Araber"). The story appeared again in a 1919 collection titled "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor").
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A Bag of Marbles A Bag of Marbles (French: "Un sac de billes" ) is a Second World War autobiographical novel by the French Jewish author Joseph Joffo. It tells the story of his flight, as a small boy, with his brother Maurice to escape from Nazi occupied France to the Zone Libre. Joffo was refused by many publishers before being encouraged by the newly founded publishing house Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès to get the help of an editor to polish the text. The book was a phenomenal best-seller, being made into a major film two years later.
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Zweites Buch The Zweites Buch (] , "Second Book"), unofficially published in English as Hitler's Secret Book and then officially Hitler's Second Book, is an unedited transcript of Adolf Hitler's thoughts on foreign policy written in 1928; it was written after "Mein Kampf" and was not published in his lifetime. The "Zweites Buch" was not published in 1928 because "Mein Kampf" did not sell well at that time and Hitler's publisher, Franz-Eher-Verlag, told Hitler that a second book would hinder sales even more.
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The Truth about Sancho Panza "The Truth about Sancho Panza" German: Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa is a short story by Franz Kafka. It was published in 1931, seven years after the death of Kafka. Max Brod selected stories and published them in the collection "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer". The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in "The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections" (New York City: Schocken Books, 1946).
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The Bishop (short story) "The Bishop" (Russian: Архиерей , "Arkhiyerei " ) is a 1902 short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in the April 1902 issue of "Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh". The story, telling about the last days of a terminally ill priest, in many ways reflects the psychological state of the author, who was at the time full of premonitions of his own inevitable demise, and in that respect is considered to be partly autobiographical.
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Faust, Part Two Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (German: "Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten." ), is the second part of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust". It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death. Because of its complexity in form and content, it is usually not read in German schools, although the first part commonly is.
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Demian Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth is a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960. "Demian" was first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair", the name of the narrator of the story, but Hesse was later revealed to be the author.
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I Remember Babylon "I Remember Babylon" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in "Playboy" in May 1960, and reprinted in the 1962 collection "Tales of Ten Worlds".
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First Sorrow "First Sorrow" (German: "Erstes Leid") is a short story by Franz Kafka probably written between the fall of 1921 and the spring of 1922. It appeared in Kurt Wolff Verlag's art periodical "Genius", III no. 2 (dated 1921, actually published in 1922) and in the Christmas 1923 supplement to the "Prager Presse". The story was also included in the collection "A Hunger Artist" ("Ein Hungerkünstler") published by "Verlag Die Schmiede" soon after Kafka's death.
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Kashtanka "Kashtanka" (Russian: Каштанка ) is a 1887 short story by Anton Chekhov.
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A Universal History of Infamy A Universal History of Infamy, or A Universal History of Iniquity (original Spanish title: Historia universal de la infamia), is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1935, and revised by the author in 1954. Most were published individually in the newspaper "Critica" between 1933 and 1934. Angel Flores, the first to use the term "magical realism", set the beginning of the movement with this book.