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The castle / Franz Kafka ; a new translation by J. A. Underwood ; with an introduction by Idris Parry.

The castle / Franz Kafka ; a new translation by J. A. Underwood ; with an introduction by Idris Parry.
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ISBN 9780141183442 (paperback)
Name Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 author.
Uniform title Schloss. English
Title The castle / Franz Kafka ; a new translation by J. A. Underwood ; with an introduction by Idris Parry.
Published London : Penguin, 1997
Description xix, 279 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes Translation of: Das Schloss.
Summary 'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before' A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. Kafka breaks new ground in evoking a dense village community fraught with tensions, and recounting an often poignant, occasionally farcical love-affair. He also explores the relation between the individual and power, and asks why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination. Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and is among the central works of modern literature. This translation follows the text established by critical scholarship, and manuscript variants are mentioned in the notes. The introduction provides guidance to the text without reducing the reader's own freedom to make sense of this fascinatingly enigmatic novel.
Language note Translation from the German.
Subjects K (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Political science -- Fiction
Other Names Underwood, J. A. (James Amery), 1940- translator.
Series Penguin classics
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