Name: Investigations of a Dog
ISBN: 9780811226899

Franz Kafka

A masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most fantastical and visionary short fiction

And Other Creatures

Investigations of a Dog

Investigations of a Dog (German: Forschungen eines Hundes) is a short story by Franz Kafka written in 1922. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). Told from the perspective of a dog, the story concerns the nature and limits of knowledge, by way of the dog's inquiries into the practices of his culture. Investigations of a Dog was written in September and October 1922, soon after Kafka ended work on his unfinished novel The Castle. Similar to other Kafka stories such as A Report to an Academy, Josephine the Singer, and The Burrow, the protagonist is an animal.

Prišlo mi to ako taký fest tryhard. Ale ponderings on hunger and music got me.

Klára Kováčiková 

Lauri

Tins

If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.' A philosopher dog wrestles with the canine condition.

Investigations of a Dog And Other Creatures

Reviews

Highlights