The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to beadmitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannotgo home, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses ofconsciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.In his introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality-to Kafka aperpetual human condition-lies at the heart of this essentiallyimaginative magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope andfear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. Thus, TheCastle is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, inwhich a labyrinthine world, described in simple language and absurdfantasy, reveals a profound truth. --This text refers to an out ofprint or unavailable edition of this title.
【作者简介】
The son of a well-to-do merchant, Franz Kafka was born inPrague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanitorium near Viennain 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of hisadult life at the Workers Accident Insurance Company for theKingdom of Bohemia in Prague. Only a small portion of his writingswere published during his lifetime; most of them, including thethree unfinished novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle, werepublished posthumously.
Mark Harman holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and has taughtGerman and Irish literature at Oberlin and Dartmouth. In additionto writing scholarly essays on Kafka and other modern authors, hehas edited and co-translated Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories,Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses and has translated Soul ofthe Age: Selected Letters of Hermann Hesse, 1891-1962. He teachesliterature at the University of Pennsylvania. --This text refers toan out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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