The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Kafka, Franz

The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780805211061)

Vendor: Franz Kafka
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Format: Paperback
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The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Kafka, Franz

The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

$17.00
The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Kafka, Franz

The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--the haunting tale of K.'s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.

Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for 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.

The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman's new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

Author: Franz Kafka
ISBN-10: 0805211063
ISBN-13: 9780805211061
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Language: English
Published: 12/15/1998
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.14w x 0.72d
Award: Literary Award - Nominee
By Franz Kafka
By Franz Kafka
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FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.

MARK HARMAN holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has translated Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962. He teaches literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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