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1 online resource (xxxviii, 279 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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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.
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Bureaucracy. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Added Author |
Bell, Anthea.
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Added Title |
Schloss. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87848264
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Other Form: |
Print version: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Castle. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199238286 (DLC) 2009005381 (OCoLC)301888746 |
ISBN |
9780191570476 (electronic book) |
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0191570478 (electronic book) |
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9786612346651 (electronic book) |
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6612346655 (electronic book) |
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9780199238286 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0199238286 |
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