The Hunter Gracchus (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Plot: Parable
- Time of Work: Unspecified
- Setting: Riva, Austria
- Principal Characters: Salvatore, Gracchus
- Genres: Short fiction, Parable
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Guilt, Accidents, Death or dying, Legends, Ships, Hunting or hunters
- Locales: Austria
The Story
As various inhabitants of the town of Riva, situated on Lake Garda, go about their apparently customary activities—shopkeeping, reading the paper, drawing water at the well, or simply idling away the time—a boat enters the harbor and ties up at the quay. Two men in dark coats with silver buttons debark, carrying what seems to be a person's body on a cloth-draped bier. The townspeople pay them no particular attention. The boatman, who seems to be their guide, directs the two men to a nearby house. All three enter it with the bier, noticed as they go in by a boy at...
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