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Author Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Title The castle / Franz Kafka ; translated by Anthea Bell ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.

Publication Info. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 279 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Biographical Preface; Introduction; Note on the Text; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Franz Kafka; THE CASTLE; Explanatory Notes.
Summary 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 t.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Translation of: Das Schloss.
Subject Bureaucracy -- Fiction.
Bureaucracy.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Added Author Bell, Anthea.
Added Title Schloss. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87848264
Other Form: Print version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Castle. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199238286 (DLC) 2009005381 (OCoLC)301888746
ISBN 9780191570476 (electronic book)
0191570478 (electronic book)
9786612346651 (electronic book)
6612346655 (electronic book)
9780199238286 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
0199238286