The Essential Kafka by Franz Kafka - ISBN: 9781840227260
Paperback
Enter Kafka’s nightmare: absurd bureaucracy, existential dread, darkly humorous enigmas.

The Essential Kafka

The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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  • Paperback

    640 pages

  • Release Date

    7 September 2014

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Summary

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is.

‘The Trial’, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781840227260
ISBN-10:1840227265
Author:Franz Kafka, Dr Keith Carabine, John, R. Williams
Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:640
Release Date:7 September 2014
Weight:451g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Series:Wordsworth Classics

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