The Castle

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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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• Il castello by Kafka Franz (1980)

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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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• English Books
• Hardcover 378 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1857151275
• ISBN-13: 9781857151275
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Pub date: Oct 08, 1992
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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