The Complete Novels: Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle - Couverture souple

Kafka, Franz

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099518449 ISBN 13 : 9780099518440

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In America Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, 'the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar colour.'

Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomised, estranged and rootless citizens decieved by authoritarian power. Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere. Together these novels may be read as powerful allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears today.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time collected together in one edition

Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power.

In The Trial Joseph K is relentlessly hunted for a crime that remains nameless.
The Castle follows K in his ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere.

In Amerika Karl Rossmann also finds himself isolated and confused when he is 'packed off to America by his parents'. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it seems.

THE CLASSIC TRANSLATION BY WILLA AND EDWIN MUIR

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099518449
• ISBN 13: 9780099518440
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 768