{"product_id":"9781593761356","title":"Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnxious Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e takes Franz Kafka's profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis,\u003c\/i\u003e and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight. All the familiar characters are here, including the hysterical mother, stern father, faithless sister, and the pragmatic household cook. But we are also introduced to, among others, the would-be author downstairs who daydreams of the narrative he may someday compose and a young woman in contemporary London reading Kafka's slim book for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eOr do they all comprise a few of the disturbing dreams from which Gregor is about to snap awake one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin? In the tradition of Michael Cunningham's \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e and John Gardner's \u003ci\u003eGrendel,\u003c\/i\u003e Olsen's novel not only represents a collaboration with a ghost, but, too, a celebration, augmentation, complication, and devoted unwriting of a momentously influential text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055790211312,"sku":"9781593761356","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593761356_p0.jpg?v=1763811104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593761356","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}