Castle

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The Castle

Product details

  • ISBN 9781573662079
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle

Seth Rogoff's masterful and mesmerizing novel, The Castle, draws inspiration from the enigmatic and incomplete final sentence of Franz Kafka's influential work of the same title. Follow renowned translator Sy Kirschbaum as he finds his way into the deserted landscape of Kafka’s world where the village of Z. lies eerily silent. The inhabitants vanished like phantoms leaving only remnants of their lives.

From these fragments, Kirschbaum pieces together a vision of a world in crisis triggered by the arrival of a stranger named K. To unravel this mystery, not just for the sake of the vanished village of Z. but for the world beyond, Kirschbaum is compelled to venture where K. could not—the deepest core of the castle.

The Castle is built upon lost documents, forgotten stories, and imagined histories. Unbound by the constraints of an authoritarian and doomed reality, Kirschbaum embarks on an extraordinary journey, seeking meaning through the fertile ground of imagination and embracing the inherent paradox of existence.

Seth Rogoff is the author of five books, most recently The Kirschbaum Lectures.

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