Imperial Message, an (1919) [Short Story]
by Franz Kafka
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Summary
(From the publisher):
Tells of a message from a dying emperor to his lowliest subject, a message which must travel a long distance and, even then, doesn't quite arrive.
Originally published in the weekly magazine Selbstwehr, 24 September 1919.
Original title: Ein kaiserliche Botschaft
Original languages:
German
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy→ Magical Realism
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Country Doctor, the (1919) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, the (1948) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
Imperial Messages (1976) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Fyodor Dostoevsky
, Franz Kafka
, Pär Lagerkvist
, Samuel Yosef Agnon
, Isaac Bashevis Singer
, Elias Canetti
, Elie Wiesel
, Gabriel García Márquez
, Paul Bowles
, Julio Cortázar
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Isak Dinesen
, Nikolai Gogol
, Duane Ackerson
, Jerzy Kosinski
, Isaac Babel
, George MacDonald
, Bertolt Brecht
, Hans Christian Andersen
, Günter Kunert
, Christoph Meckel
, Heinrich von Kleist
, Marguerite Yourcenar
, Kobo Abe
, Hans Carl Artmann
, Wolfgang Hildesheimer
, Jakov Lind
, Tommaso Landolfi
, Marie Luise Kaschnitz
, Marco Denevi
, Reinhard Lettau
, Russell Edson
, Enrique Anderson Imbert
, Martin Buber
, Juan José Arreola
, Antonin Artaud
, Pierre Bettencourt
, Marvin Cohen
, Kirby Congdon
, Bob Dylan
, Lawrence Fixel
, Gust Gils
, Lars Gyllensten
, Cecil Helman
, Zbigniew Herbert
, Edmond Jabès
, Eugene Jolas
, Daniil Kharms
, Rachel Kubie
, R. Yehoshua Lovaine
, Milos Macourek
, W. S. Merwin
, Henri Michaux
, Barton Midwood
, Mohammed Mrabet
, Slawomir Mrozek
, Multatuli
, Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
, Paul van Ostaijen
, I.L. Peretz
, Isaac Rosenfeld
, Jerome Rothenberg
, Andreas Schroeder
, Howard Schwartz
, Miguel Serrano
, David Slabotsky
, Robert Thompson
, Roland Topor
, Krishna Baldev Vaid
, Britton Wilkie
, Charles Schwartz (ii)
Basic Kafka, the (1979) [Collection]
Author: Franz Kafka
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