Of cinema, food, and desire: Franz Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog".(Critical essay) From: College Literature | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Williams, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2007 West Chester University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I. Food, Film, and a Desire to Nothing but Literature

 
  'Office life is a dog's life.' 'Yes, Kafka agreed, 'yet I don't ... 
  bark at anyone and I don't bite either. As you know-I'm a vegetarian. 
  We only live on our own flesh." (1) 

Shortly after his early retirement in 1922 Franz Kafka went to live with his sister Ottla who was renting a summer cottage in the rural community of Plana outside of Prague. There he worked in her vegetable garden, took long w...