Franz Kafka

The Castle - Unabridged (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Theis, Kevin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Castle" is the last novel written by German writer Franz Kafka. Unfinished at the time of his death, the book was posthumously published by Kafka's friend and executor Max Brod and has since gone on to become one of the most admired books of the 20th century.

"The Castle" is a surrealist novel of a man - known only as "K" - who attempts to penetrate the ruling bureaucracy of a small village, the leaders of which are housed in a mysterious and impenetrable castle. In typical Kafka fashion, K encounters one absurd roadblock after another in his attempt to cut through the red tape and confusion surrounding the village's enigmatic ruling class.

One of Kafka's most beloved works, "The Castle" is presented here as it was originally published in 1930 as translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798892822206
• Artikelnr.: 75547939

Autorenporträt

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Jewish writer born and raised in Prague (then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). While few of his works were published during his lifetime, the books and short stories that appeared posthumously became enormously popular and Kafka is now considered one of the major literary figures of the 20th Century. Born to a middle-class family, Kafka trained to become a lawyer, eventually finding work in the insurance industry. In his spare time, he would write short stories, novels and hundreds of letters to both family and friends. Plagued by self-doubt about his writing, Kafka regularly burned his own work rather than risk ridicule and poor reviews. (It is estimated that as much as ninety percent of his writing went up in flames.) The few pieces that were published during his lifetime (including his novella The Metamorphosis) received little attention. Kafka died in relative obscurity in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis. In his will, he instructed his friend and executor Max Brod to destroy what remained of his work but Brod ignored this request and published much of his writing instead, including the novels The Trial, The Castle and Amerika. These books became hugely popular in German-speaking countries following World War II and were soon translated and disseminated to various other countries, eventually leading to worldwide fame. His writing style - which included fantastical and surrealistic scenarios and bizarre plots - became especially popular during the 1960's, and influenced a generation of artists, writers and philosophers, who coined a word to describe such works that is still in use today: "Kafkaesque."