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The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka (Paperback, 2014)
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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 the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is 'The Castle'. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties. AUTHOR: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Jewish Czech who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke the bewildering oppressiveness of modern life, of anxiety and alienation in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. Although most of his work was published posthumously, his body of work, including the novels 'The Trial' (1925) and 'The Castle' (1926) and the short stories including 'The Metamorphosis' (1915) and 'In the Penal Colony' (1914), is now considered among the most original in Western literature.Product Identifiers
PublisherWordsworth Editions LTD
ISBN-139781840227260
eBay Product ID (ePID)209320931
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Book TitleThe Essential Kafka: the Castle; the Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
AuthorFranz Kafka
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2014
Number of Pages640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight412g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorFranz Kafka
Series TitleWordsworth Classics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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