The Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

The Castle is 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. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where

Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Features K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to

The Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

The protagonist of this Kafka classic, K., finds himself in a faraway, snow-covered village with a castle looming above. The inhabitants of the mysterious castle are also the strict officials who govern the village. When K. tries to reach out to the officials, he gets himself into a complex

The Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking why the villagers so

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

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,

Castle (Kafka Franz)(Pevná vazba)

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to 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

Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir NabokovThe story of K. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and

Burrow - Posthumously Published Short Fiction (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

The Metamorphosis (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka about a man who awakes one morning to find himself transformed from a human into an

Trial: Metamorphosis: In the Penal Colony - Three Theatre Adaptations from Franz Kafka (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Complete Novels - Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece. Kafka's characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian

The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923 (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial--one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the

Franz Kafka - Minority Report - Franz Kafka

The reports collected in this volume are not simply about Franz Kafka and his work. As the title suggests, the Kafkian universe is examined here with respect to the problem of minority, which can be treated in many ways, but what is decisive here is the notion of minority developed by Gilles

Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

The Trial (Wisehouse Classics Edition) (Kafka Franz)(Paperback)

THE TRIAL is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by

The Castle - Franz Kafka, Karel Hruška

'Vše, co může být řečeno o této knize, je jen tápáním ve tmě. Člověk musí knihu přečíst sám, řádek za řádkem, aby viděl, jak se zde často z půvabného spolubytí ironie a piety vynořuje hrozící přísnost Posledního soudu. Touto knihou se dokonale blíží velkému,

Complete Stories Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. 'An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent,

Trial (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves

Complete Short Stories (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of all Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches, to longer, complete tales. Together, they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the depth of his thought. Some, like 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Judgement', are well-known; others are mere jottings

The Metamorphosis (Kafka Franz)(Pevná vazba)

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.One day, Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect (the most common translation of the German description ungeheuer Ungeziefer,

Metamorphosis (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

Letters To Milena - Franz Kafka

In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifter and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely

Franz Kafka i Praga - Harald Salfellner

'Franz Kafka byl Praha a Praha byla Franz Kafka', napsal kdysi Johannes Urzidil. A skutečně, kdo se vydá po stopách života Franze Kafky, toho cesta zavede přímo do srdce starého císařského města nad Vltavou. Až do morku kostí, celou svou bytostí je spisovatel Kafka zakořeněn v