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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100805210393
ISBN-139780805210392
eBay Product ID (ePID)215795
Product Key Features
Book TitleCastle
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, European / General, Absurdist, Literary
Publication Year1995
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction
AuthorFranz Kafka
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-045606
Dewey Edition22
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 From the Hardcover edition., "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 From the Hardcover edition.
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, (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir From the Hardcover edition.