Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Wilson, William S.

ISBN 10: 0880010703 / ISBN 13: 9780880010702

Published by Ecco Press; NY, 1984

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Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 133 , stiff illustrated wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
• Publisher: Ecco Press; NY
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880010703
• ISBN 13: 9780880010702
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First paperback Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 8 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

This classic collection of short fiction by William S. Wilson touches on controversies over the role of science in our lives and deals with cosmetic surgery and the medical uses of human embryos, heart transplants, and regenerated genitalia. And that's only the beginning. The story "Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka," implies that Kafka responded in his fiction to questions that no longer need to be asked in fiction. The epistolary story, "Conveyance: The Story I Wouldn't Want Bill Wilson to Read," is an intimate letter from a woman who had wanted to write fiction and who now challenges Wilson's reaction to her report of a tragedy. "Interim" chronicles the imaginary reforestation of Scotland and "Anthropology" turns on the actual moment in Structuralism when Claude Levi-Strauss relocates the ear to the back of the head in order to interpret a myth.

From the Publisher

Wilson's story anthropology, what is lost in rotation, which appears in this collection, was published in the Best American Short Stories 1977 edition.