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The Castle

(Penguin Modern Classics)

By Idris Parry, Franz Kafka, J. Underwood (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780141183442

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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, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. In his introduction, Idris Parry sContinue

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, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. In his introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality-to Kafka a perpetual human condition-lies at the heart of this essentially imaginative magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. Thus, The Castle is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, in which a labyrinthine world, described in simple language and absurd fantasy, reveals a profound truth.

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  • Kafka: Translators on Trial

    In 1921 the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa gave up their jobs in London and went to live on the Continent. The dollar was strong; they hoped to make ends meet by reviewing books for the American periodical The Freeman. After a nine-month ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • A nice comment can be found here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a…

    I am just too darn lazy to write anything at this moment. But I kinda visite the place he once lived when I was in Austria. I say "kinda" because after we drove by, my dear ... (continue)

    A nice comment can be found here: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/a…

    I am just too darn lazy to write anything at this moment. But I kinda visite the place he once lived when I was in Austria. I say "kinda" because after we drove by, my dear boyfriend told me "by the way, Kafka once lived the place we just passed by".
    He thought Kafka was too dark for me, but little did he know that I read him long time a ago--before I start to appreciate Kurt's dark humor.

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