Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom … More
Tag: Franz Kafka
Born OTD in 1883, novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature, Franz Kafka. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity
Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is … More
When a land surveyor, known only as “K.”, is summoned to the Village, he is forced to negotiate an obscure hierarchy – among assistants & messengers, chambermaids, landladies, masters & mistresses. But how is he to receive his instructions from the Castle when no one knows what his employer looks like, telephones ring unanswered, & there is anyway no land to survey? A piercing study in futility, Kafka’s final masterpiece ends – much like life itself – in mid-sentence.
Kafka never finished The Castle, his final novel. What he did complete is a vision of a relentlessly dystopian realm … More
Born OTD 1883, Franz Kafka. German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.
The Trial, reinvented in this graphic novel, is the chilling and bleakly amusing tale of Joseph K, a man arrested … More