The Complete Novels
Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle
Franz Kafka author Edwin Muir translator Willa Muir translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Apr '08
Should be back in stock very soon

The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one edition.
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 power.
A crime without a name, a castle without access and an exile adrift in America.
Kafka’s three great novels in one essential collection.
Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control: estranged, rootless citizens deceived by authority and trapped in systems they cannot understand. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential force, these novels create a world at once absurd, comic and terrifyingly recognisable.
In The Trial, Joseph K is hunted for a crime that remains nameless. The Castle follows K in his ceaseless attempts to enter the castle and to belong somewhere. In Amerika, Karl Rossmann finds himself isolated and confused when he is packed off to America by his parents.
The Complete Novels is a landmark collection for readers of literary fiction, dystopian fiction and modern classics, bringing together Kafka’s enduring visions of bureaucracy, alienation, exile and power.
THE CLASSIC TRANSLATION BY WILLA AND EDWIN MUIR
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him -- Vladimir Nabokov
Kafka described with wonderful imaginative power the future concentration camps, the future instability of the law, the future absolutism of the state, the paralysed, inadequately motivated, floundering lives of the many individual people; everything appeared as a nightmare and with the confusion and inadequacy of a nightmare -- Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9780099518440
Dimensions: 200mm x 131mm x 38mm
Weight: 532g
768 pages