{"product_id":"9781550718676","title":"A Hunger Artist \u0026 Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love (Essential Translations Series)","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, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot 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 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","brand":"Guernica Editions,Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48987140915435,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":36.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781550718676","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}