The Castle

Franz Kafka, Irving Howe, Willa Muir , Edwin Muir

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Everyman Hardcovers
15 November 1992

Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John Zilcosky

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.

By: Franz Kafka
Introduction by: Irving Howe
Translated by: Willa Muir, Edwin Muir
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 528g
ISBN: 9781857151275
ISBN 10: 1857151275
Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 15 November 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Castle

Kafka's great allegory (originally published, posthumously, in 1926) of a supposed surveyor adrift in a castle, which may be no more than a collection of random buildings, memorably expresses his distinctive vision of a formless and secretive world that frustrates our efforts to comprehend it. This compulsively readable new translation, based on a text restored from the author's original manuscript, labors to replace the standard English version (by Willa and Edwin Muir) that had tone[d] down Kafka's ominousness and normalized his deliberately eccentric syntax and punctuation. In either translation, The Castle is a major modern symbolist work, and it's good to have it in print once again. (Kirkus Reviews)