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Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.“The limits of Kafka’s messianic vision correspond to the great scepticism with which he regarded the possibility of transcending the human predicament . . . At precisely the point when K. draws closest to his own salvation and to the salvation that he could offer the rest of the world, he is also farthest away from it. At precisely the moment when his spirit is called, K. is asleep.” - W. G. Sebald“The new Schocken edition of The Castle represents a major and long-awaited event in English-language publishing. It is a wonderful piece of news for all Kafka readers who, for more than half a century, have had to rely on flawed, superannuated editions. Mark Harman is to be commended for his success in capturing the fresh, fluid, al

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Author

Franz Kafka, Mark Harman, J. A. Underwood

Publisher

Schocken Books, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805211061

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (25,657 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14