[D66] Investigations of a Dog

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Investigations of a Dog
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"Investigations of a Dog"
Author	Franz Kafka
Original title	"Forschungen eines Hundes"
Language	German
Genre(s)	Short story
Published in	Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer
Media type	book (hardcover)
Publication date	1931
Published in English	

    1933 London, Martin Secker
    1946 New York, Schocken Books

"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). The
first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by
Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China.
Stories and Reflections (New York City: Schocken Books, 1946).[1] 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.
Plot

The unnamed narrator, a dog, recounts a number of episodes from its
past, in which it used quasi-scientific and rational methods to resolve
basic questions of its existence that most of its peers were content to
leave unanswered, such as: "Whence does the Earth procure its food?".[2]
Many of the seemingly absurd descriptions employed by the narrator
express its misapprehension or confusion about the world, centering on
dogkind's apparent inability to realize (or, some passages suggest,
unwillingness to acknowledge) the existence of their human masters.
References

	German Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Forschungen eines Hundes

The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections. Franz Kafka - 1946 -
Schocken Books
The World of Franz Kafka. JP Stern - 1980 - Holt McDougal