The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199238286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorAnthea Bell is a freelance translator and the winner of numerous awards for her work.Ritchie Robertson is Fellow and tutor in German at St. John's College, Oxford.
Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Not surprisingly very Kafkaesque, but with a lot of original humor. I'd like to think that while he wrote at least, Kafka was having some fun. Some of the detail even in his most depressing books is as funny as it's poignant.. Wanted to love it Kafka and I have something in common: neither one of us finished this book. I really wanted to like this book. I think the dense prose and lengthy dialogue without a paragraph break got to be too much for me. It's one of those books I appreciate, but that I'm not anxious to pick up and read. The concept is fascinating. But I feel like I got the message fairly early on. The story itself was kind of dull. I stopped at page 165. I'm guessing it's more of the same: K struggles against an unknown bureaucracy, refuses to give up, he makes no progress, in fact, things get worse, and then it ends mid-senten. "Great book" according to xin. I read the book when I was 22. Twenty years later, I can still feel the resonance of the feelings that I empathized from the book--why I should say that I had absorbed those feeling and they had been part of me ever since, something that sent me into sudden bursts of deep depression. Other books have intrigued me, bewildered me, left me thinking or even obsessed for days or months, but none have ever touched me as much.Not recommended for people with weak hearts or feeble minds though.
John's College, Oxford.. Anthea Bell is a freelance translator and the winner of numerous awards for her work.Ritchie Robertson is Fellow and tutor in German at St
In addition, the edition includes a Biographical Preface which places Kafka within the context of his time, plus an up-to-date bibliography and chronology of Kafka's life.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. The detailed introduction by Ritchie Robertson, a leading Kafka scholar, explores the many meanings of this famously enigmatic novel, providing guidance without reducing the reader's freedom to make sense of this fascinating novel. This new translation by prize-winning translator Anthea Bell follows the German text established by critical scholarship, and mentions manuscript variants in the notes. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, i