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  The Complete Novels of Kafka (Vintage Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Franz Kafka

  

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  Short Description for The Complete Novels of KafkaIncludes novels which are intended to be read as allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears.
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  • Publisher: Vintage Classics
  • Published: 03 April 2008
  • Format: Paperback 768 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780099518440 ISBN 10: 0099518449
  • Sales rank: 15,232

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• In "America" Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to American by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. "Kafka", a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as Max Brod commented, 'the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar colour.' Both Joseph K in "The Trial" and K in "The Castle" are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control. Both are atomised, estranged and rootless citizens decieved by authoritarian power. Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless, K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere. Together these novels may be read as powerful allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears today.