In one work, after mocking the idea of coherence as an “old, old story,” this character quips to an unnamed interlocutor, “You are a nonentity whom I'm filling up with wine.” In a story, this character claims that, if it were commanded that they be helped, “all would lie in their beds, the blanket pulled over their heads, the entire planet a hostel” to a man who had earlier insisted “I’m not laughing.” A “Fragment” on this character extends a story in which their arrival is heralded by a talking (*) dove the size of a rooster, collected in The Great Wall of China. This character dies after falling off a cliff while chasing a chamois in the Black Forest. This character relates how, because their boatswain (“BOH-sun”) made a “steering error,” they are condemned to forever “ply the earthly waters” in a conversation with Salvatore, the Burgomaster of Riva. For 10 points, name this title “Hunter” of a Kafka story. ■END■
ANSWER: Gracchus [accept “The Hunter Gracchus” or “Der Jäger Gracchus”; accept “The Hunter Gracchus: a Fragment”, “Fragment of ‘The Hunter Gracchus’”, “Der Jäger Gracchus: Ein Fragment”, or “Fragment zum ‘Jäger Gracchus’”]
<Tim Morrison, European Literature>
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