The Castle
Price: 440.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780199238286
Publication date:
30/10/2009
Paperback
320 pages
196x129mm
Price: 440.00 INR
We sell our titles through other companies
Disclaimer :You will be redirected to a third party website.The sole responsibility of supplies, condition of the product, availability of stock, date of delivery, mode of payment will be as promised by the said third party only. Prices and specifications may vary from the OUP India site.
ISBN:
9780199238286
Publication date:
30/10/2009
Paperback
320 pages
Part of Oxford World's Classics
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell, Ritchie Robertson
Kafka's last novel, The Castle, explores the ever-present tension between the individual and authority. This new translation by prize-winning translator Anthea Bell is partnered by invaluable introduction and notes by a leading Kafka scholar.,The translation follows the text in the German critical edition and mentions manuscript variants in the notes.,Detailed introduction explores the many meanings of this famously enigmatic novel in a fresh appraisal.,A Biographical Preface provides an account of Kafka's life against the context of his time.,Up-to-date bibliography and chronology of the author.
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell, Ritchie Robertson
Description
'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 the villagers so readily submit to an
authority which may exist only in their collective imagination.
Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and is among the central works of modern literature. This translation follows the text established by critical scholarship, and manuscript variants are mentioned in the notes. The introduction provides guidance to the text without reducing the reader's own freedom to make sense of this fascinatingly enigmatic novel.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around
the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
About the author/editor
Franz KafkaTranslated by Anthea Bell and Edited by Ritchie Robertson, Fellow and Tutor in German, St John's College, Oxford
Franz Kafka, Anthea Bell, Ritchie Robertson
Description
'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 the villagers so readily submit to an
authority which may exist only in their collective imagination.
Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and is among the central works of modern literature. This translation follows the text established by critical scholarship, and manuscript variants are mentioned in the notes. The introduction provides guidance to the text without reducing the reader's own freedom to make sense of this fascinatingly enigmatic novel.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around
the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
About the author/editor
Franz KafkaTranslated by Anthea Bell and Edited by Ritchie Robertson, Fellow and Tutor in German, St John's College, Oxford
Mark Twain, Peter Stoneley
Anton Chekhov, Rosamund Bartlett
Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer, Alice Wakely
Charles Dickens, Andrew Sanders
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne, William Butcher
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alan Myers, William Leatherbarrow
Charles Dickens, Kathleen Tillotson, Stephen Gill
Charles Dickens, Margaret Cardwell, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
Joseph Conrad, Cedric Watts
