'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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
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ISBN
9780191579844
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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