This book can be read as an introduction to dystopian literature.Joseph K. (the protagonist) arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. K. believes that he's been invited to a town to do some land surveying, and realises upon his arri...
bookshelves: translation, tbr-busting-2013, summer-2013, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, prague, published-1922, re-visit-2015, spring-2015, play-dramatisation, lit-richer, unfinished-by-author Read from July 21, 2013 to May 18, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbw1mRevisit 2015 is via Rad...
A young land surveyor arrives in a village, appointed by the count of the castle on the hill overshadowing the country. In a dreamlike, labyrinthine tale riddled with material and emotional inconsistencies,Kafka envisions a bureaucratic administration bloated and twisted beyond all imaginings, in wh...
It was late in the evening when K arrived.From wiki:Kafka began writing The Castle on the evening of 27 January 1922, the day he arrived at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle (now in the Czech Republic). A picture taken of him upon his arrival shows him by a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow in a set...
Kafka's works all read like parables, but what if anything they are parables of is obscure. The typical Kafka tropes are here. The dreamlike matter-of-factness of the surreal, the arcane bureaucracy, the continual circling of a goal that never comes any closer and whose purpose is obscure. There...
A page from Kafka's manuscript of 'The Castle'Publisher's NoteTranslator's Preface & Notes--The CastleAppendix:Afterword to the German Critical Edition, by Malcolm PasleyThe Life of Franz KafkaBibliography
A page from Kafka's manuscript of 'The Castle'Publisher's NoteTranslator's Preface & Notes--The CastleAppendix:Afterword to the German Critical Edition, by Malcolm PasleyThe Life of Franz KafkaBibliography
I think the concept is perhaps better than the execution, but what a concept. The paragraph that begins chapter XXV is perhaps the longest I have ever seen. It kind of makes it intense even though they're not really talking about anything that intense. And even though it was a total fluke, you go...
There was a news article today suggesting that two thirds of people questioned lie about the books they have read to appear more sophisticated, so how do you know I'm telling the truth... This was somewhat strange. It's never quite clear what is true and what isn't. Everything is open to interpretat...
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