The Castle
'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before'A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. Kafka breaks new ground in evoking a dense village community fraught with tensions, and recounting an often poignant, occasionally farcical love-affair. He also explores the relation between the individual and power, and asks why thevillagers so readily submit to an authority w…
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Weitere Autoren: Bell, Anthea / Robertson, Ritchie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-157984-4
- EAN: 9780191579844
- Produktnummer: 13899821
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'146 KB
Über den Autor
Anthea Bell is a freelance translator from French and German and the winner of various translation awards: the Schlegel-Tieck Award, UK, three times; the Wolff Award, US; the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation. She is the translator of W. G. Sebald and Stefan Zweig, and is best-known as the translator of Asterix.Ritchie Robertson is the author of the Very Short Introduction to Kafka. For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Hoffmann's The Golden Pot and Other Stories and introduced editions of Freud and Schnitzler. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.
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