{"product_id":"9781550718676","title":"The Hunger Artist \u0026 Other Stories; Poems and Songs of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eKafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor, and these two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), represent later works in the corpus. Poems and Songs of Love is a translation of the collection Piyyutim ve-Shirei Yedidot by Georg Mordechai Langer, which contains an elegy to Langer's friend and mentor Franz Kafka. Langer and Kafka hailed from the same middle-class, assimilated, Jewish Prague background and shared a mutual interest in Hasidic culture, literature, and Hebrew. This collaborative translation by Elana and Menachem Wolff brings the fascinating work of Langer - poems as well as an essay on Kafka - to the English-reading public for the first time, and sheds light on a hitherto unexplored relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049135390960,"sku":"9781550718676","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550718676_p0.jpg?v=1763751444","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550718676","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}