Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "The Bucket Rider" ("Der Kübelreiter") is a story fragment by Franz Kafka, written in 1921. It first appeared in the Prager Presse that year. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 1946).The story is about a man looking for coal to fill his bucket. He is a poor man and hopes that the coal-dealer will be generous enough to loan him some coal. He claims he'll pay the man back later. When he arrives, he pleads, but it soon becomes apparent the coal-dealer and his wife are oblivious to his needs.The wife in particular ignores his pleas, and the narrator scorns her. He leaves them in anger, "ascending to the ice mountains...lost forever.". }
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- The_Bucket_Rider abstract ""The Bucket Rider" ("Der Kübelreiter") is a story fragment by Franz Kafka, written in 1921. It first appeared in the Prager Presse that year. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931). The first English translation translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933. It appeared in The Great Wall of China. Stories and Reflections (New York: Schocken Books, 1946).The story is about a man looking for coal to fill his bucket. He is a poor man and hopes that the coal-dealer will be generous enough to loan him some coal. He claims he'll pay the man back later. When he arrives, he pleads, but it soon becomes apparent the coal-dealer and his wife are oblivious to his needs.The wife in particular ignores his pleas, and the narrator scorns her. He leaves them in anger, "ascending to the ice mountains...lost forever."".