| The Castle: Introduction by Irving Howe Contributor(s): Kafka, Franz (Author), Muir, Willa (Translator), Muir, Edwin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0679417354 ISBN-13: 9780679417354 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1992 Annotation: Introduction by Irving Howe; Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Absurdist |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92052904 |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.28" W x 8.45" (1.14 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |