The castle
Subtitle: a new translation, based on the restored text
By: Franz Kafka ; translated and with a preface by Mark Harman.
Contributors: Harman, Mark.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Castles -- Fiction.
Description: Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider The Castle a failure, critics, in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one of the great novels of our century.

This new edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who went back to Kafka's original manuscript and notes to create a text that is as close as possible to the way the author left it. Mark Harman's translation closely follows the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, revealing levels of comedy, energy, and visual power that have not been previously accessible to English-language readers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-328).