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''If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.''

How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.

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Investigations of a Dog

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    A Paperback / softback by Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780241339305, 978-0241339305
      ISBN10: 0241339308
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Books by Franz Kafka

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.''

      How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.

      Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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