Franz Kafka - The Castle

“The words that can be said about this book are merely tentative asides. A person must glean for himself line by line how the ominous severity of the final verdict emerges from an often lovely coexistence of irony and reverence. With this book he has now fully emerged into the domain of great, timelessly prophetic art, of a Dante, a Hölderlin. That which remained denied to a faltering, stammering generation, and that for which it ecstatically bled itself to death: in these fragments all this steps into the light of our time in artistic perfection.” (Hans Sahl, January 1927)

"... so the same atmosphere of horror and suffering will be created that was (horrifically and hauntingly) felt in the Trial. If you ask me, however, which of the two works is "nicer", I must admit that The Castle. For in this work the great narrator, Franz Kafka, is a fairy-tale poet whose earlier, lesser works can be glimpsed here. In this fairy-tale novel there are magical aspects and strange humorous aspects that evoke horror and laughter in the reader at the same time." (Ludwig Winder, January 1927)

• 13 x 21 cm, 384 pages
• paperback with flaps, adhesive binding