The Castle: A Novel - Couverture souple

Rogoff, Seth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1573662070 ISBN 13 : 9781573662079

Editeur : Fiction Collective 2, 2024

Synopsis

A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle.

Seth Rogoff's masterful and mesmerizing novel, The Castle, draws inspiration from the enigmatic and incomplete final sentence of Franz Kafka's influential work of the same title. Follow renowned translator Sy Kirschbaum as he finds his way into the deserted landscape of Kafka’s world where the village of Z. lies eerily silent. The inhabitants vanished like phantoms leaving only remnants of their lives.

From these fragments, Kirschbaum pieces together a vision of a world in crisis triggered by the arrival of a stranger named K. To unravel this mystery, not just for the sake of the vanished village of Z. but for the world beyond, Kirschbaum is compelled to venture where K. could not—the deepest core of the castle.

The Castle is built upon lost documents, forgotten stories, and imagined histories. Unbound by the constraints of an authoritarian and doomed reality, Kirschbaum embarks on an extraordinary journey, seeking meaning through the fertile ground of imagination and embracing the inherent paradox of existence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Seth Rogoff is the author of five books, most recently The Kirschbaum Lectures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fiction Collective 2
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573662070
• ISBN 13: 9781573662079
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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