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The Complete Novels
Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle
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The Complete Novels
The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece.
Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power.
The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one edition
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The Complete Novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece.
Kafka's characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential profundity, Kafka has been compared to a literary Woody Allen.
In The Trial, Joseph K is relentlessly hunted for a crime that remains nameless.
The Castle follows K in his ceaseless attempts to enter the castle and to 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.
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The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka is highly praised for its profound and imaginative depth. Vladimir Nabokov considered Kafka one of the greatest German writers, placing him above contemporaries like Rilke and Thomas Mann. Bertolt Brecht highlighted Kafka's ability to foresee and depict future societal issues with nightmare-like qualities, showcasing the instability and absolutism of the state alongside the paralysed existence of individuals.
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ISBN: 9780099518440
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 April 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Willa Muir
- Translated by Edwin Muir
- Translated by Edwin Muir
- Translated by Willa Muir
- Translated by Edwin Muir
- Translated by Willa Muir
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 526g
Pages: 768
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About the Author
Franz Kafka (Author) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the State Worker's Accident Insurance Institute. He never married, and published only a few slim volumes of stories during his lifetime. Meditation, a collection of sketches, appeared in 1912; The Stoker- A Fragment in 1913; Metamorphosis in 1915; The Judgement in 1916; In the Penal Colony in 1919; and A Country Doctor in 1920. The great novels were not published until after his death from tuberculosis- America, The Trial and The Castle. Edwin Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959), one of our most distinguished modern poets, was, too, a traveller, translator, critic and novelist, the author of the famed Structure of the Novel and The Marionette. With his wife, Willa Muir, he was the translator of Kafka's The Castle and The Trial. He received the CBE in 1953, and settled in Cambridgeshire, where he continued to write poetry until his death in 1959.
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