Investigations of a Dog

"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short

"Investigations of a Dog"
story by Franz Kafka written in 1922. It was published posthumously in Beim
Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation by Author Franz Kafka
Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It Original title "Forschungen
appeared in The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections (New York City: eines
Schocken Books, 1946).[1] Told from the perspective of a dog, the story Hundes"
concerns the nature and limits of knowledge, by way of the dog's inquiries into Language German
the practices of his culture.
Genre(s) Short story
"Investigations of a Dog" was written in September and October 1922, soon Published in Beim Bau der
after Kafka ended work on his unfinished novel The Castle. Similar to other Chinesischen
Kafka stories such as "A Report to an Academy", "Josephine the Singer", and Mauer
"The Burrow", the protagonist is an animal. Media type book
(hardcover)
Plot Publication date 1931
The unnamed narrator, a dog, recounts a number of episodes from its past, in Published in English 1933 London,
which it used quasi-scientific and rational methods to resolve basic questions of Martin Secker
its existence that most of its peers were content to leave unanswered, such as: 1946 New
"Whence does the Earth procure its food?".[2] Many of the seemingly absurd York,
descriptions employed by the narrator express its misapprehension or confusion Schocken
about the world, centering on dogkind's apparent inability to realize (or, some Books
passages suggest, unwillingness to acknowledge) the existence of their human
masters.

References
1. The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections. Franz Kafka - 1946 - Schocken Books
2. The World of Franz Kafka. JP Stern - 1980 - Holt McDougal

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