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Castle : Introduction by Irving Howe by Franz Kafka (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679417354
ISBN-139780679417354
eBay Product ID (ePID)228067
Product Key Features
Original LanguageGerman
Book TitleCastle : Introduction by Irving Howe
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicClassics, Absurdist, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorFranz Kafka
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight18.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-052904
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Of all Kafka's fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafkahe lacks Kafka's grave intelligence and humorbut his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . .The Castleprojects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka's earlier writingsan effort to overcome the muteness of existence." from the Introduction by Irving Howe, "Of all Kafka's fiction this is the most personal. K. is not of course a mouthpiece for Kafkahe lacks Kafka's grave intelligence and humorbut his inner conflict between a taste for ordinary life and the demands imposed by his quest were in good part shared by Kafka . . . The Castle projects a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka's earlier writingsan effort to overcome the muteness of existence." from the Introduction by Irving Howe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal833.91
SynopsisArriving 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. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.'s consuming quest-quite possibly a self-imposed one-to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish "to get clear about ultimate things," an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka's dazzlingly uncanny fictions. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial , and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: 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. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.'s consuming quest-quite possibly a self-imposed one-to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish "to get clear about ultimate things," an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka's dazzlingly uncanny fictions. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
LC Classification NumberPT2621.A26S33 1992
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