内容简介
The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be
admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot
go home, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of
consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.
In his introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality-to Kafka a
perpetual human condition-lies at the heart of this essentially
imaginative magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and
fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. Thus, The
Castle is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, in
which a labyrinthine world, described in simple language and absurd
fantasy, reveals a profound truth. --This text refers to an out of
print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介
The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born in
Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanitorium near Vienna
in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his
adult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company for the
Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a small portion of his writings
were published during his lifetime; most of them, including the
three unfinished novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, were
published posthumously.
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. --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.