num_pages: 320
description: 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir NabokovThe story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.
language: English
title: Daisy Bates in the Desert
titlecomplete: Daisy Bates in the Desert
characters: Friedrich, Sordini, Hans Brunswick, Barnabas' Vater, Erlanger, Artur und Jeremias, Fräulein Gisa, Brügel, Grafen Westwest, Momus, Pepi, Herrenhof Wirtin, Otto Brunswick, Olga, Gardena, Seemann, Galater, K., Dorfvorsteher, Klamm, Lehrer, Schwarzer, Barnabas' Mutter, Amalia, Frieda, Herrenhof Wirt, Mizzi, Lasemann, Gerstäcker, Barnabas, Frau Brunswick, Sortini
genres: Dystopia, Czech Literature, Literary Fiction, German Literature, Philosophy, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 59768
places: Czechoslovakia
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: J.A. Underwood
publisher: Minerva