{"product_id":"a-hunger-artist-other-thor-polson-9781550718676","title":"A Hunger Artist \u0026 Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love: Volume 20","description":"\u003cp\u003eKafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, \u003cem\u003eA Country Doctor\u003c\/em\u003e (1919) and \u003cem\u003eA Hunger Artist\u003c\/em\u003e (1924), represent later works in the corpus. \u003cem\u003ePoems and Songs of Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a translation of the collection \u003cem\u003ePiyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot\u003c\/em\u003e by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langer's friend and mentor Franz Kafka. Langer and Kafka hailed from the same middle-class, assimilated, Jewish Prague background and shared a mutual interest in Hasidic culture, literature, and Hebrew. This collaborative translation by Elana and Menachem Wolff from the Hebrew brings the fascinating work of Langer -- poems as well as an essay on Kafka -- to the English-reading public for the first time and sheds light on a hitherto unexplored relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thor Polson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550718673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550718676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Guernica Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Thor Polson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485610225919,"sku":"9781550718676","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14399c36-01e7-4567-b4b6-b2da705d28a6.jpg?v=1778050363","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-hunger-artist-other-thor-polson-9781550718676","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}