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The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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- Condition
- Publication date
- 7 Sept. 2014
- Language
- English, German
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions; UK ed. edition (7 Sept. 2014)
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 3.56 x 19.56 cm
- MPN
- FIS-842260
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Paperback
- 640 pages
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Type
- Classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-1840227260
- ISBN-13
- 978-1840227260
- Print length
- 640 pages
- ISBN-10
- 1840227265
- ISBN-10
- 1840227265
- General Category
- Fiction
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 3.56 x 19.56 cm
- ISBN
- 9781840227260
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Essential Kafka: the Castle; the Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions LTD
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 412g
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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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.
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Book Title
The Essential Kafka: the Castle; the Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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Paperback
Language
English
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Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
640 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
412g
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Wordsworth Classics
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