The Castle

Franz Kafka

ISBN 10: 0241678919 / ISBN 13: 9780241678916

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jul 2024, 2024

Beschreibung

Neuware - Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780241678916

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Castle
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Jul 2024
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0241678919
• ISBN-13: 9780241678916
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 195B x 126 H x 23 T Millimeter Breite: 195 mm, Höhe: 126 mm, Tiefe: 23 mm
• Gewicht: 262 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

An acclaimed translation of the final work by Franz Kafka—author of Metamorphosis and some of the twentieth century's greatest literature—following the story of a man's bizarre, unending struggle to carry out his mysterious new job

A Penguin Classic

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a Czech-born, German-speaking author of some of the most important literature of the twentieth century, including Metamorphosis (1912), The Trial (1925), and Amerika (1927). 

J. A. Underwood (translator; 1930–2018) was recognized by the Society of Authors for his translation of The Castle and has translated a wide variety of modern authors, among them Elias Canetti, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julien Green, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Idris Parry (introduction; 1916–2008) was a professor and scholar of modern German literature at the University of Manchester.