BIBFRAME Work

Title

A cage went in search of a bird : ten Kafkaesque stories

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

• Ten Kafkaesque stories
• Cage went in search of a bird

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Cohen, Joshua, 1980- (author )
• Smith, Ali (author )
• Oyeyemi, Helen (author )
• Ridgway, Keith, 1965- (author )
• Ross, Leone, 1969- (author )
• Orange, Tommy, 1982- (author )
• Rothfeld, Becca (writer of introduction)
• Batuman, Elif, 1977- (author )
• Li, Yiyun, 1972- (author )
• Alderman, Naomi (author )
• Kaufman, Charlie, 1958- (author )

Subject

• short stories (AAT)
• Nouvelles (RVM)
• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Influence (LCSH)
• Short stories (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Fiction (LCGFT)
• Short stories (LCGFT)
• Nouvelles (RVMGF)
• short stories (AAT)

Language

• English

Classification

LCC: PN6120.2 .C34 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Summary

"What happens when Kafka's idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers from across the globe"--Back cover.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Becca Rothfield -- Art hotel / Ali Smith -- Return to the museum / Joshua Cohen -- The board / Elif Batuman -- God's doorbell / Naomi Alderman -- The hurt / Tommy Orange -- Hygiene / Helen Oyeyemi -- The landlord / Keith Ridgway -- Apostrophe's dream / Yiyun Li -- Headache / Leone Ross -- This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing / Charlie Kaufman.

Authorized Access Point

A cage went in search of a bird : ten Kafkaesque stories

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:44.119968+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23494909

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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