The Essential Kafka

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The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories

By:

Franz Kafka

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Paperback

Series:

Wordsworth Classics

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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.

Release date Australia

September 14th, 2014

Author

Franz Kafka

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Introduction by John R. Williams
Series edited by Keith Carabine
Translated by John R. Williams

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Pages

640

Publisher

Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Series

Wordsworth Classics

Dimensions

129x198x15

ISBN-13

9781840227260

Product ID

21787479

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