The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble unearthing a decades-old mystery about

unearthing a decades-old mystery about a missing child

Kafka is ensnared in a confounding bureaucracy of his own imagination

Reading the English translation of Julie Delporte's This Woman's Work makes me wish I could read it again in its original French—not for any imagined flaw in its translators' fluid prose (Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen)

which he created for fifteen years

The Beast of Monsieur Racine Isabelle Struble unearthing a decades-old mystery aboutBy Tomi Ungerer. Published by Phaidon. Hardcover, 32 pages, Colour, 1971 Monsieur Racine wakes up one day to find his precious pear tree looted of all the award winning fruit. When he discovers that the culprit is funny looking beast, his anger gives way to curiosity and two become friends. But the beast is not quite what it seems, eventually it comes apart literally to show itself to be no beast at all, but the two playful children from next door,