The Castle Kafka, Franz
Kafka, Franz
Sold by Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 8, 2006
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since August 8, 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket1954 Knopf hard cover - 1st printing of the definitive edition - some wear to edges of dust jacket - tanning to page edge - otherwise cover and binding like new contents clean - a fine copy - enjoy.
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One of three unfinished novels left after Kafka's death, The Castle is in many ways the writer's most enduring and influential work. In Harman's muscular translation, Kafka's text seems more modern than ever, the words tumbling over one another, the sentences separated only by commas. Harman's version also ends the same way as Kafka's original manuscript--that is, in mid-sentence: "She held out her trembling hand to K. and had him sit down beside her, she spoke with great difficulty, it was difficult to understand her, but what she said--." For anyone used to reading Kafka in his artificially complete form, the effect is extraordinary; it is as if Kafka himself had just stepped from the room, leaving behind him a work whose resolution is the more haunting for being forever out of reach.
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