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Author:	Franz Kafka
Title:	The Castle
Publisher:	Modern Library
Country:	USA
Date:	Feb 1969
Format:	Hardcover
Class Number:	833.912
Genre:	Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction
Translator:	Willa and Edwin Muir
First Published:	1926
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Definitive Edition.
481 pages.
Modern Library # 388.
Homage by Thomas Mann.
Includes appendix with fragments, variant readings, and author deletions translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.

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Magic Marmalade 4th May 2021		I always felt this was purposefully left unfinished... as a kind of punch-line to the book as a joke. Makes the point well though. And you always get the feeling with Kafka he's pulling your leg, and testing how gullible you are as a reader.



ppint. ● 4th May 2021		Review ''das schloß'' was started in 1922, but left unfinished, and probably incomplete°, by kafka when he ceased to be capable of writing, and subsequently died. it's an account of the viewpoint character's arrival at a village (or town) dominated by a castle and its occupant(s?), and his attempts to get accepted into the position of surveyor to which he's been appointed, in the face of a labyrinthine stone-walling°° of every effort he can think of making to get recognised - or, indeed, anywhere. the ordinary people he meets are all dominated by their fear of officials and the dire and dreadful unspoken punishments or sanctions, and fate, that inevitably awaits anyone as durst step out of line - including by helping anyone so evidently disapproved of, from their being unrecognised by the castle. and though he receives some written encouragement from an official of the castle, in its details it is decreasingly consistent with both the reality that he observes, and that which he experiences... ° - given the nature of the beast, it's possible there could be, and could never have been, any conclusion - and certainly, no resolution... °° - pun intentional - but intended by whom? 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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