Counterparts (short story) youngest son, Tom, to make dinner but as the child lets the fire in the kitchen go out, Farrington's rage explodes and he starts beating the little child with a walking stick. The story ends with Tom pleading for mercy. For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of documents concerning the office's business. Counterparts (short story) "Counterparts" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection "Dubliners". The story recounts an evening in the life of a man named Farrington, frequently referred to simply as "the man". Farrington’s difficulties
Contemplation (short story collection) Contemplation (short story collection) Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the "Rowohlt Verlag" on an initiative by Kurt Wolff. Eight of these stories were published before under the title "Betrachtungen" ("Contemplations") in the bimonthly "Hyperion". The collection "Description of a Struggle", published in 1958, includes some of the stories In English, in whole or in part. All the stories appear in "The Complete