The Castle
A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
Published on 5. December 2012
352 pages
978-0-307-82948-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--the haunting tale of K.'s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. 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.
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FRANZ KAFKA was born in 1883 in Prague, where he lived most of his life. During his lifetime, he published only a few short stories, including "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," and "The Stoker." He died in 1924, before completing any of his full-length novels. At the end of his life, Kafka asked his lifelong friend and literary executor Max Brod to burn all his unpublished work. Brod overrode those wishes.
MARK HARMAN holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has translated Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962. He teaches literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
MARK HARMAN holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught German and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In addition to writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, he has edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has translated Soul of the Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962. He teaches literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Translator's Preface
- I. Arrival
- II. Barnabas
- III. Frieda
- IV. First Conversation with the Landlady
- V. At the Chairman's
- VI. Second Conversation with the Landlady
- VII. The Teacher
- VIII. Waiting for Klamm
- IX. The Struggle Against the Interrogation
- X. On the Street
- XI. In the Schoolhouse
- XII. The Assistants
- XIII. Hans
- XIV. Frieda's Reproach
- XV. At Amalia's
- XVI.
- XVII. Amalia's Secret
- XVIII. Amalia's Punishment
- XIX. Petitioning
- XX. Olga's Plans
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- Appendix
- Afterword to the German Critical Edition, by Malcolm Pasley
- The Life of Franz Kafka
- Bibliography
