The castle /

The castle /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
Uniform title:	Schloss. English
Edition:	Definitive ed.
Imprint:	New York : Schocken Books, 1974, c1954.
Description:	xvi, 481 p.; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Castles -- Fiction. Allegories. Allegories. Castles. Fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9043322

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Other authors / contributors:	Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Muir, Willa, 1890-1970. Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959. Wilkins, Eithne. Kaiser, Ernst.
ISBN:	0805204156 9780805204155
Notes:	Translation of : Das Schloss.
Summary:	In THE CASTLE, a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with the Land Surveyor dying in the village; the castle notifying him on his death bed that his legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there.

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Summary:	A study of relationships, particularly between the individual and society and between thought and action, The Castle is one of Kafka's most profoundly imaginative works. As fear and worry develop in a series of strangely illogical events and man's quest for freedom heightens, this classic novel confirms Kafka's reputation as one of the greatest creators of visionary fiction this century. "Kafka discovered the hitherto unknown possibilities of the novel, and it is thanks to him that the very notion of the novel is not the same as it was before." --Milan Kundera "He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison with him." --Vladimir Nabokov
Item Description:	Translation of : Das Schloss.
Physical Description:	xvi, 481 p.; 21 cm
ISBN:	0805204156 9780805204155