What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some
of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe
today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short
stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.
Franz Kafka is
widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of
European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and a diagnostician,
and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the
anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the
modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment.
From a future
society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach
God; to an apartment search that descends into a comically absurd
bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of
unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially
commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and
haunting. Inspired by a twentieth-century visionary, they speak
powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today.