Kafka Franz - The Essential Kafka The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis And Other Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Like George Orwell Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare but in Kafka's world it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials and if there is any help to be had it will come from unexpected sources is a chilling blackly amusing tale that maintains to the very end a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi - feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist victim or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally in his fables Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.
Title: The Essential Kafka The Castle; The Trial; Metamorphosis And Other Stories
Author(s): Kafka Franz
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Barcode: 9781840227260
Pages: 640 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/7/2014
Series: Wordsworth Classics
(Editor: Carabine, Dr Keith)
Category: Classic Fiction