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Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.
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" Of all Kafka's fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafka- he lacks Kafka's grave intelligence and humor- but his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . . "The Castle" projects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka's earlier writings- an effort to overcome the muteness of existence." - from the Introduction by Irving Howe
Of all Kafka s fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafka he lacks Kafka s grave intelligence and humor but his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . . The Castle projects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka s earlier writings an effort to overcome the muteness of existence. from the Introduction by Irving Howe"
"Of all Kafka's fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafka-he lacks Kafka's grave intelligence and humor-but his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . . The Castle projects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka's earlier writings-an effort to overcome the muteness of existence." -from the Introduction by Irving Howe
-Of all Kafka's fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafka-he lacks Kafka's grave intelligence and humor-but his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . . The Castle projects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka's earlier writings-an effort to overcome the muteness of existence.- -from the Introduction by Irving Howe
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'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov
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- PublisherEveryman
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1857151275
- ISBN 13 9781857151275
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages424
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