$40.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1992
Summary
“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
The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.’s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka’s vision of twent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749399528 |
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| ISBN-10: | 074939952X |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1992 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Every time you read The Castle , you find something new in it
Every time you read The Castle, you find something new in it * Sunday Times *
Kafka discovered the hitherto unknown possibilities of the novel – Milan Kundera
Kafka may be the most important writer of the twentieth century – J. G. Ballard
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
(1883-1924)
Born into a Jewish family in Prague, Franz Kafka received a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1906. For many years, he worked a tedious job as a civil servant lawyer, investigating claims at the State Worker’s Accident Insurance Institute. He never married and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. His published works include Meditation (1912), The Stoker: A Fragment (1913), Metamorphosis (1915), The Judgement (1916), In the Penal Colony (1919), and A Country Doctor (1920). His major novels—America, The Trial, and The Castle—were published posthumously.
Edwin Muir
(1887-1959)
Edwin Muir was a distinguished modern poet, traveller, translator, critic, and novelist. He authored The Structure of the Novel and The Marionette. With his wife, Willa Muir, he translated Kafka’s The Castle and The Trial. Muir was awarded the CBE in 1953 and settled in Cambridgeshire, where he continued to write poetry until his death in 1959.
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