The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text

Kafka, Franz; Mark Harman [Translator]

ISBN 10: 0805241183 / ISBN 13: 9780805241181

Editore: Schocken Books, 1998

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New translation based on the restored text, first thus. Schocken Books, 1998; stated First Edition with full number line; xxiii, 328pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; gift inscription on front end page, text very good throughout. Very minor wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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• Titolo: The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
• Editore: Schocken Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0805241183
• ISBN 13: 9780805241181
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literature

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Riassunto

A fantasy novel, depicting human attempts to arrive closer to God, considered to be a symbolic classic

Informazioni sull?autore

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanitorium near Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company for the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a small portion of his writings were published during his lifetime; most of them, including the three unfinished novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, were published posthumously.

Mark Harman holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has tra