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On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary
masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant new translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations missed. A traveler known only as K. is
promised a job as Land-Surveyor by officials of the Castle. But when K. arrives in town to claim his position, he learns that owing to a clerical error, his services aren't needed after all. Seeking
an explanation, K. endures increasingly frustrating setbacks as he strives in vain to simply make contact with someone-anyone-from the Castle. Saturated with absurdist humor, this haunting novel has
fascinated and puzzled readers throughout the world. Some critics praise it as the century's great religious parable, while others interpret it as indisputably antireligious. Critically acclaimed
narrator George Guidall sheds light on this dreamlike tale, illuminating the limitless nuances of Kafka's writing.
On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary
masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant new translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations missed. A traveler known only as K. is
promised a job as Land-Surveyor by officials of the Castle. But when K. arrives in town to claim his position, he learns that owing to a clerical error, his services aren't needed after all. Seeking
an explanation, K. endures increasingly frustrating setbacks as he strives in vain to simply make contact with someone-anyone-from the Castle. Saturated with absurdist humor, this haunting novel has
fascinated and puzzled readers throughout the world. Some critics praise it as the century's great religious parable, while others interpret it as indisputably antireligious. Critically acclaimed
narrator George Guidall sheds light on this dreamlike tale, illuminating the limitless nuances of Kafka's writing.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Shows a more comic Kafka…Harman has also made it more faithful to Kafka’s dreamlike style.”
—New York Times
“Will decisively alter our understanding of Kafka and render previous editions obsolete.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Had one to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of.”
—W.H. Auden
“This edition of Kafka’s terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product
of an international team of experts who went back to Kafka's original
manuscript and notes to create a text that is as close as possible to
the way the author left it. The translation closely follows the fluidity
and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript,
revealing levels of comedy, energy, and visual power that have not been
previously accessible to English-language readers.”
—Book News
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), one of the major fiction writers of the twentieth century, was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. His unique body of
writing, much of which is incomplete and was mainly published posthumously, is considered by some people to be among the most influential in Western literature, inspiring such writers as Albert
Camus, Rex Warner, and Samuel Beckett.
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