PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : THE BURROW – FRANZ KAFKA-MICHAEL HOFMANN

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka s most frightening and visionary short fiction Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror Little Fable to the off-kilter humour of Investigations of a Dog , and from the elaborate waking nightmare of Building the Great Wall of China to the creeping unease of The Burrow , where a nameless creature s labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.