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The Essential Kafka: The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
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KAFKA, FRANZ
Product Details
ISBN: 9781840227260
Author: KAFKA, FRANZ
Pages: 640
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
- In The Trial, the rules are hidden from even the highest officials.
- If there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources.
- This chilling, blackly amusing tale 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.
The Castle
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 an opportunist, a victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority?
Kafka’s Fables
Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which:
- Offers no reassurance.
- Provides no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.
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