DESCRIPTION OF A STRUGGLE
Based on the Franz Kafka short story of the same title, this is one of his earlier works, and the story is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is narrated by a young man attending a party and tells of his "acquaintance" that he meets there. The second chapter is the longest and is itself split into several sections. The narrator leaps onto his acquaintance's back and rides him like a horse and imagines a landscape that responds to his every whim. He then meets an extraordinarily fat man carried on a litter who tells him the story of a "supplicant" that prays by smashing his head into the ground. In the third chapter, the narrator returns to reality, so to speak, and continues his walk up the Laurenziberg in winter with his acquaintance.
