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The Essential Kafka : The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Format: Paperback / softback 640 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition: UK ed.
ISBN:9 781840227260
Published: 7 Sep 2014
Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Weight: 10g
Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 35 (mm)
Pub. Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Description

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, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that 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.

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 opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority?

Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

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The Essential Kafka : The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka (Author) , John R. Williams (Introduction By)
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Format: Paperback / softback 640 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Edition: UK ed.
ISBN: 9781840227260
Published: 7 Sep 2014
Classifications: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Weight: 386g
Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 35 (mm)
Pub. Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Description

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, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that 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.

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 opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority?Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.

About Ria Christie Books

We are professional online booksellers based in the UK. We sell new books and aim to provide an excellent service to all our customers. All orders are shipped promptly from our Uxbridge (London) warehouse. We provide free shipping to all our UK customers.

Our services consist of: cheap books, online books, free shipping, bestselling books, bestsellers, paperback books, hardback books, textbooks, school books.

Our books categories are: Biography & True Stories; Language; Literature & Literary studies; English Language; Fiction; Non-fiction; Reference & Interdisciplinary; Humanities; Society & Social Sciences; Interest Age & Special Interest; Economics, Business & Finance; Law; Medicine; Mathematics & Science; ECO System & Planning; Engineering & Agriculture; Information Technology; Health & Personal development; Lifestyle & Sport; Children's and Teenage & Education