Investigations of a Dog

I thought it was going to be a cute novella about a dog investigating society (a profound investigation of society, more than likely, because that is Kafka's modus operandi)

Who was I to think that a German speaker could write a “cute” story? Instead I got a profound investigation of science, the scientific method, and the limitations of perspective from a dog's point of view. Very good, but very dense; didn't particularly feel like a novella given how dense it was.