KAFKA, Franz.

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Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist). First edition, boards issue, in the dust jacket. Kafka worked on his final story collection during his last days. "When he finished the proofs - working on them must have been a tremendous psychological effort and a shattering intellectual reencounter with himself - tears rolled down his cheeks for a long time" (cited in Unseld, p. 273).Also issued in cloth, the collection comprises the title story along with "Ersted Lied", "Eine kleine Frau", and "Josefine die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse". The cover art is by the influential German-American book artist George Salter (1897-1967). Among his other cover designs were Kafka's Der Prozess (1925), William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957).Loosely inserted is the publisher's promotional bookmark for their Novels of the 20th Century series.

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