Josephine: The Mouse Singer

by Michael McClure

Book Overview

Michael McClure's Josephine: The Mouse Singer, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafka's, "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk." Kafka and McClure? And yet the combination is bound to work, for in essence both writers in their different ways ponder the trials of the artist in an arbitrary universe. McClure's exuberant, inspired adaptation, in fact, reminds us of the bizarre whimseys Kafka's tales were originally intended to be. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811207552
• ISBN13: 9780811207553
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"