[D66] Investigations of a Dog

[A.O.]

On 21-02-19 09:42, A.O. wrote:
> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/midnight-madness-franz-kafkas-investigations-of-a-dog-and-other-creatures/#!
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_of_a_Dog
> Investigations of a Dog
> >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>
>
> "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
>
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