The Castle
$18.61
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2024
Summary
Kafka’s last great, unfinished novel—the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare.
With a new introduction and notes by John Zilcosky
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241678916 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241678919 |
| Author: | Franz Kafka, J.A. Underwood, John Zilcosky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (Author)
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 (Translator)
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.
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