The castle
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Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be resolved.Like much of Kafka's work, The Castle is enigmatic and polyvalent. Is it an allegory of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Empire as it disintegrates into modern nation states, or a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? Is it the search by a central European Jew for acceptance and integration into a dominant culture? Is it a spiritual quest for grace or salvation, or an individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is K. is an opportunist, a victim, or an outsider battling against an elusive authority? Is the Castle a benign source of authority or a whimsical system of control?Like K., the reader is presented with conflicting perspectives that rehearse the existential dilemmas and uncertainties of literary modernity.
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9780805210392
9780679417354
9781848704855
9789389716887
9781982426040
9781843794066
9781449872748
9780805204155
9780679417354
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9789389716887
9781982426040
9781843794066
9781449872748
9780805204155
Lexile measure:
1280L
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Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-28 13:47:38PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-05-03 22:22:53PM |
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Corduner, Allan
Guidall, George
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The castle
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The Castle [electronic resource] / Franz Kafka
The Castle [electronic resource] / John Williams, Tom Griffith and Franz Kafka
The castle / Franz Kafka ; introduction by Irving Howe ; homage by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir ; additional material translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
The castle / Franz Kafka ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir ; introduced by Irving Howe
The castle / with an homage by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
The castle; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. With an homage by Thomas Mann
The Castle [electronic resource] / John Williams, Tom Griffith and Franz Kafka
The castle / Franz Kafka ; introduction by Irving Howe ; homage by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir ; additional material translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
The castle / Franz Kafka ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir ; introduced by Irving Howe
The castle / with an homage by Thomas Mann ; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser
The castle; translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. With an homage by Thomas Mann
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The castle
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