The Cares of a Family Man
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The Cares of a Family Man is a short story by Franz Kafka.
The story deals with a small creature called Odradek:
At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure, they are only old, broken-off bits of thread, knotted and tangled together, of the most varied sorts and colors. But it is not only a spool, for a small wooden crossbar sticks out of the middle of the star, and another small rod is joined to that at a right angle.[1]
The story was written between 1914 and 1917. In 1919 it appeared in Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen (A Country Doctor), a collection of Kafka's short stories published by Kurt Wolff (Munich and Leipzig)[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. 428
- ^ Kafka, 473.
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