The Suffering of Being Kafka
New English and Hebrew
Short Fiction
By: Sam Vaknin
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I wrote my first short fiction tome, "Requesting My Loved One" in prison:
It was a voyage of painful self-discovery. The stranger I saw in my mirror stared back and hard.
"Requesting My Loved One" and "Malignant Self Love" are twins. In the latter I generalized and non-fictionalized the former.
I won the 1997 Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose for "Requesting my Loved One". Award Committee Reasons.
I thought it was ironic: a prisoner, writing about an amoral world while experiencing his own disintegration - and the Ministry of Education and Culture reward!
The Suffering of Being Kafka is a new collection of short fiction. I cannot publish it in Israel because I had to leave it, exiled by my own profligacy.
The stories are copyrighted by me. Feel free to copy them, distribute them by any means, including electronic means - providing you give me due credit (simply add: Author - Shmuel Vaknin).
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Table of Contents
English Language (with Reading Guides)
Arab Soothsayers Cannot be Trusted
I. Abimbola Salako - English Translation
II. Beheaded Cart - English Translation
III. Paper Inmate - English Translation
IV. Remembering Avimelekh - English Translation
V. Coitus Interruptus - English Translation
VI. The Bus to Town - English Translation
VII. Curfew - English Translation
VIII. Aphrodisiac - English Translation
IX. Elitzur Washes Test-tubes - English Translation
X. Farewell to Brother - English Translation
XII. Janusz Courts Dina - English Translation
XIII. My Affair with Jesus - English Translation
XIV. The Supreme Court Judge - English Translation
XV. Kitchens - English Translation
XVI. Letter to Judge N - English Translation
XVII. Madeleine's Future - English Translation
XVIII. The Suffering of Being Kafka (Hebrew Manuscript)
XIX. The Day the Nazis Returned - English Translation
XX. It will be Alright - English Translation
XXI. Penumbral Toes - English Translation
XXII. Death of the Poet - English Translation
XXIII. Death of a Prince - English Translation
XXIV. Raining Rabbits - English Translation
XXV. Reaction Anticipated - English Translation
XXVI. A Window of Sensitivity - English Translation
XXVII. Shalev is Silent - English Translation
XXVIII. Sights - English Translation
XXIX. Siren Calls - English Translation
XXX. State of the Universe - English Translation
XXXI. Pet Snail - English Translation
XXXII. Peleg's Stamps - English Translation
XXXIII. Prague - English Translation
XXXIV. Tangential Thought - English Translation
XXXV. Short Waves - English Translation
XXXVI. A Rustic Wedding - English Translation
XXXV. Windows - English Translation
XXXVI. A Short Winter Tale - English Translation
XXXVII. Wordsmith - English Translation
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