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Informationen zum Autor Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial , The Castle and Amerika , were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod. J. A. Underwood is a distinguished translator of German and French. He has translated, among others, Freud, Canetti, Kafka, Benjamin, Gombrowicz, Bachelard and Robbe-Grillet. Klappentext The Castle is 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. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt! hope and fear! and reason and nonsense! K.'s struggles in the absurd! labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished! yet this! the last of his three great novels! draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete. Zusammenfassung Features K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveals a truth about the nature of existence.

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• Authors: Franz Kafka, Kafka Franz, Idris Parry
• Assisted by: Idris Parry (Introduction), Parry Idris (Introduction), Zilcosky John (Introduction), J. A. Underwood (Translation), Underwood J. A. (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2015
• EAN: 9780241197806
• ISBN: 978-0-241-19780-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Political, FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, FICTION / World Literature / Czech Republic, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction