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"I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting"; or, Looking at Kafka

Philip Roth

First published 1981
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Different ways that Franz Kafka's life could have played out; depicts him emigrating to America and living long but not writing his famous works.

First appeared in the collection Reading Myself and Others, 1969.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1981 Cover The Treasury of American Short Stories Doubleday Anthology |659
1990 The Treasury of American Short Stories Dorset Press Anthology 659
November 2011 Cover Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka Tachyon Publications Anthology 231