The Suffering of Being Kafka

New English and Hebrew Short Fiction

By: Dr. Sam Vaknin


The Author of: Requesting My Loved One
(Miskal-Yedioth Aharonot, 1997)


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I wrote my first tome, "Requesting My Loved One" in jail:

It was a voyage of painful self discovery. The stranger I saw in my mirror stared back and hard.

"Requesting My Loved One" and "Malignant Self Love" are twins. In the latter I generalized and non-fictionalized the former.

I won the 1997 New Prose Award of the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture.

I thought it was ironic: a prisoner, writing about an amoral world through his own disintegration - and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

This is a new collection of short fiction. I cannot publish it in Israel because I had to leave it, exiled by my own profligacy.

The stories are copyrighted by me. Feel free to copy them, distribute them by any means, including electronic means - providing you give me due credit (simply add: Author - Shmuel Vaknin).

Don't forget to read my  Poetry of Healing and Abuse and my Journal.

Thank you for dropping by.


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Table of Contents

English Language

Beheaded Cart

Janusz Courts Dina

Madeleine's Future

Pet Snail

The Bus to Town

My Affair with Jesus

Death of the Poet

Shalev is Silent


Table of Contents

Hebrew with English Translation

English Fiction at Gorgelink - The Butterflies are Laughing

English Fiction at Gorgelink - The Con Man Cometh

English Fiction at Gorgelink - Out Kid

English Fiction at Gorgelink - Redemption

English Fiction at Gorgelink - Write Me a Letter

English Fiction at Gorgelink - A Language of Black and Red

English Fiction at Gorgelink - Pierre's Friends

English Fiction at Gorgelink - The Last Days


I. Abimbola Salako - English Translation

II. Beheaded Cart - English Translation

III. Paper Inmate - English Translation

IV. Remembering Avimelekh - English Translation

V. Coitus Interruptus - English Translation

VI. The Bus to Town - English Translation

VII. Curfew - English Translation

VIII. Aphrodisiac - English Translation

IX. Elitzur Washes Test-tubes - English Translation

X. Farewell to Brother - English Translation

XI. Interview

XII. Janusz Courts Dina - English Translation

XIII. My Affair with Jesus - English Translation

XIV. The Supreme Court Judge - English Translation

XV. Kitchens - English Translation

XVI. Letter to Judge N - English Translation

XVII. Madeleine's Future - English Translation

XVIII. The Suffering of Being Kafka

XIX. The Day the Nazis Returned - English Translation

XX. It will be Alright - English Translation

XXI. Penumbral Toes - English Translation

XXII. Death of the Poet - English Translation

XXIII. Death of a Prince - English Translation

XXIV. Raining Rabbits - English Translation

XXV. Reaction Anticipated - English Translation

XXVI. A Window of Sensitivity - English Translation

XXVII. Shalev is Silent - English Translation

XXVIII. Sights - English Translation

XXIX. Siren Calls - English Translation

XXX. State of the Universe - English Translation

XXXI. Pet Snail - English Translation

XXXII. Peleg's Stamps - English Translation

XXXIII. Prague - English Translation

XXXIV. Tangential Thought - English Translation

XXXV. Short Waves - English Translation

XXXVI. A Rustic Wedding - English Translation

XXXV. Windows - English Translation

XXXVI. A Short Winter Tale - English Translation

XXXVII. Wordsmith - English Translation

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