Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Audiobook5 hours
Forgiving the Angel: Four Stories for Franz Kafka
Written by Jay Cantor
Narrated by Qarie Marshall
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
From one of our most admired writers comes a brilliant, sometimes heartbreaking group of stories.--In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him.
Author
Jay Cantor
Jay Cantor is the author of three novels, The Death of Che Guevara, Krazy Kat, and Great Neck, and two books of essays, The Space Between and On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother. A MacArthur Fellow, Cantor teaches at Tufts University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter.
Related to Forgiving the Angel
Related audiobooks
The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories The Island of Doctor Moreau Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDionea: Violet Paget, wrote under a male pseudonym to help her career, a huge pioneer of supernatural fiction. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRats - A Short Story Collection: The horror of rats assails us in this engrossing inescapable collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings49 Poems from The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFarewell to My Concubine Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Descent into the Maelström (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Great Gatsby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions of an English Opium Eater Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Hunger Artist: and other works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Star-Treader and Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGod Sees the Truth, But Waits Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Days by Moonlight Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Diary of a Madman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From the Shadows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sorrows of Young Werther Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBad Teeth: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Candide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Reluctant Cannibals: Digitally narrated using a synthesized voice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5De Profundis (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dead at 40 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArthur Mervyn Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Pleasures of Opium, Pain of Opium Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Awakening (Unabridged Version) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShort Stories About Madness: Stories of madness, insanity and losing your grip on reality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrime and Punishment: The Original Manuscript Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wife Who Didn't Eat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Literary Fiction For You
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bell Jar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tom Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Measure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Name of the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stardust Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Parable of the Sower Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yellowface: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hang the Moon: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House in the Cerulean Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Left Hand of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CATCH-22 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flowers for Algernon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hate U Give Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Their Eyes Were Watching God Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kindred Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
The Best Of the Penguin Podcast 2023 0% found this document useful313 "Spring Snow" (from The Sea of Fertility) by Yukio Mishima 0% found this document useful23: 40 Years of Salmon Poetry; Bachelard's images; Cathy Belton 0% found this document usefulEpisode #113: Modern Love--Lee Miller and Man Ray (Season 13, Episode 6) 0% found this document usefulEP 433: What is Capitalist Realism? with Iggy Perillo 0% found this document useful312 Yukio Mishima 0% found this document usefulRoadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic, first published in 1972, is the … 0% found this document usefulThe Twelve Days: December Almanac: This episode explores folklore and pagan origins … 100% found this document usefulEpisode 71: The Medium is the Message 0% found this document useful392 Sigmund Freud 0% found this document usefulAre We Living in a Simulation? 0% found this document usefulCathay by Ezra Pound ~ Full Audiobook 0% found this document usefulCelebrity Book Club: Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me (with Rob Anderson) 0% found this document usefulQuicksand by Nella Larsen ~ Full Audiobook 0% found this document useful44: Jean Rhys: Voyages in the Dark 0% found this document usefulHellmouths: Hungry Bois of Hades 0% found this document useful1: How the True World Finally Became a Fable 0% found this document usefulThe Sandman Unlocked — Introduction of The Hosts, The Sandman comic, and Neil Gaiman 0% found this document useful
Related articles
The Book I Kept for the Cover The Paris ReviewArticle
The Book I Kept for the Cover
Apr 13, 2018
5 min readThe Controversial Novel That Immerses Readers in Teen Abuse The AtlanticArticle
The Controversial Novel That Immerses Readers in Teen Abuse
Mar 25, 2020
8 min readMasochism And Despair In The Village Of The Damned The Big IssueArticle
Masochism And Despair In The Village Of The Damned
Jun 20, 2022
In Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh offers a fitting tale for the hellscape of our pandemic times; gleefully rubbing our faces in the filth of human nature. Her chosen setting – the imagined village of Lapvona – harks back to the age of medieval fiefdoms an
2 min readThe Self Is Other People NautilusArticle
The Self Is Other People
Apr 3, 2018
3 min read‘Like Moving Through Water While Everyone Is On Land’: The Writers Exploring Sexuality Through Sea Life The GuardianArticle
‘Like Moving Through Water While Everyone Is On Land’: The Writers Exploring Sexuality Through Sea Life
Feb 3, 2023
“I’ve always had a very strong connection to the sea,” says author Sabrina Imbler, who grew up in California by the Pacific Ocean. “I remember always being like: ‘If I could live anywhere, this is where I would be: I would be a fish in this place.’ I
4 min readLatest Offering From Russian Cult Novelist Pelevin Divides And Confuses Critics Global VoicesArticle
Latest Offering From Russian Cult Novelist Pelevin Divides And Confuses Critics
Dec 23, 2019
6 min readEach Sentence Is One You Can Feel The AtlanticArticle
Each Sentence Is One You Can Feel
May 22, 2022
4 min readAn Artist of Our Social Age The American ScholarArticle
An Artist of Our Social Age
Sep 1, 2022
10 min readThe Soviet Children Who Survived World War II The Paris ReviewArticle
The Soviet Children Who Survived World War II
Jul 17, 2019
10 min readYou Can’t Rely on Inspiration: Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard Literary HubArticle
You Can’t Rely on Inspiration: Essential Writing Advice from J.G. Ballard
Nov 15, 2018
6 min readEditor Dumbo FeatherArticle
Editor
Nov 5, 2020
2 min readOn Body Horror And The Monstrosity Of Women The MillionsArticle
On Body Horror And The Monstrosity Of Women
Oct 18, 2019
A woman becoming something else—a tree, a freak, a monster—reduces the risk of harm. It may even allow you to cause harm in return. The post On Body Horror and the Monstrosity of Women appeared first on The Millions.
5 min readThe Year’s 10 Best Reviewed Books in Translation Literary HubArticle
The Year’s 10 Best Reviewed Books in Translation
Feb 2, 2018
3 min readThe Impertinence of Counterculture Guernica MagazineArticle
The Impertinence of Counterculture
Jan 29, 2020
3 min readTV, FILM & RADIO History RevealedArticle
TV, FILM & RADIO
May 14, 2020
5 min readEncountering Hervé Guibert’s Anti-Utopian Men Literary HubArticle
Encountering Hervé Guibert’s Anti-Utopian Men
Jun 22, 2020
10 min readHiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked Literary HubArticle
Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked
Oct 23, 2020
5 min readThrough a Speculum Darkly THE TRAGIC ANATOMY OF DEAD RINGERS Screen EducationArticle
Through a Speculum Darkly THE TRAGIC ANATOMY OF DEAD RINGERS
Jun 23, 2019
11 min readEscaping The Patriarchy For Good The AtlanticArticle
Escaping The Patriarchy For Good
Aug 7, 2022
7 min readThe Comic Tragedy Of A Narrator With No Sense Of Self Literary HubArticle
The Comic Tragedy Of A Narrator With No Sense Of Self
Jun 21, 2019
9 min readHorror Writers Association The WriterArticle
Horror Writers Association
Sep 24, 2022
JOHN PALISANO, A BRAM STOKER Award-winning author and president of the nonprofit Horror Writers Association (HWA), finds horror to be an empowering genre. When challenged, he cites the case of The Walking Dead fan Terra Newell, who used self-defense
3 min readLetters Reveal Author's Strength In A World Of Destructive Noise NPRArticle
Letters Reveal Author's Strength In A World Of Destructive Noise
Jun 9, 2021
5 min readThe Style & Technique Of KAZUO ISHIGURO Writing MagazineArticle
The Style & Technique Of KAZUO ISHIGURO
Feb 6, 2020
6 min readThe Lighter Side of Dan Chaon The MillionsArticle
The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon
Apr 11, 2022
I had a dystopian idea in the beginning, and in the end the dystopia caught up with me. The post The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon appeared first on The Millions.
4 min readWhat Poetry Can Predict The Paris ReviewArticle
What Poetry Can Predict
Oct 9, 2019
4 min read13 Punk (as Fuck) Writers You Should Know Literary HubArticle
13 Punk (as Fuck) Writers You Should Know
Aug 1, 2018
4 min read30 Books in 30 Days: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life Literary HubArticle
30 Books in 30 Days: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Feb 22, 2017
In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, NBCC board member Kate Tuttle offers an appreciation of biography fin
2 min readAsk A Literary Consultant Writing MagazineArticle
Ask A Literary Consultant
Sep 3, 2020
2 min read'The Great Pretender' Seeks The Truth About 'On Being Sane In Insane Places' NPRArticle
'The Great Pretender' Seeks The Truth About 'On Being Sane In Insane Places'
Nov 4, 2019
Journalist and Brain on Fire author Susannah Cahalan writes in an urgent, personal book that the '70s study by David Rosenhan had an outsized effect on psychiatry — and may have been fatally flawed.
3 min read'Between Two Fires' Asks: At What Point Are We Responsible For Our Actions? NPRArticle
'Between Two Fires' Asks: At What Point Are We Responsible For Our Actions?
Jan 13, 2020
3 min read
Reviews for Forgiving the Angel
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews