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The castle

Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 (Author). Bell, Anthea. (Added Author).

Summary: K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before'A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. Kafka breaks new ground in evoking a dense village community fraught with tensions, and recounting an often poignant, occasionally farcical love-affair. He also explores the relation between the individual and power, and asks why t.

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  • ISBN: 9780191570476 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0191570478 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780199238286 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • ISBN: 0199238286
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource (xxxviii, 279 p.)
  • Publisher: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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General Note:
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Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Biographical Preface; Introduction; Note on the Text; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Franz Kafka; THE CASTLE; Explanatory Notes.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Bureaucracy -- Fiction
Bureaucracy
Genre: Electronic books.
Fiction.

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