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The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanitorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a small portion of his writings were published during his lifetime; most of them, including the three unfinished novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, were published posthumously.
Mark Harman holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has translated Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962. He teaches literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Présentation de l'éditeur
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Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.’s consuming quest–quite possibly a self-imposed one–to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish “to get clear about ultimate things,” an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka’s dazzlingly uncanny fictions.
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
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The Castle
Edité par
KnopfBorzoi, 1949
ISBN 10 : 0436230410
ISBN 13 : 9780436230417
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Vendeur : Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dust jacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 9780436230417. Hardback. Ninth printing of 1930 English translation of 1926 German original. Slight wear to corners and edges; minor dust soiling to boards; red marker "140" on upper right corner of front paste down; small stains on lower edge of front paste down and end paper and on lower right corner of pages 152-55; slight browning throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. Fair condition dust jacket with numerous chips and several closed tears repaired with clear tape; heavy browning to spine; minor browning and dust soiling overall. We have placed dust jacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described.\. No Signature. N° de réf. du vendeur 4206371
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The Castle (Definitive Edition)
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Secker & Warburg, 1973
ISBN 10 : 0436230410
ISBN 13 : 9780436230417
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