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The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest.
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all of Kafka's short stories. With the exception of three novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of his narrative work. The book was originally edited by Nahum N. Glatzer and published by Schocken Books in 1971.
Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, [11] [12] a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia. [13]
Description of a Struggle is a collection of short stories and story fragments by Franz Kafka. [1] First published in 1936 after Kafka's death by Max Brod, it was translated by Tania and James Stern and published in 1958 by Schocken Books.
The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod.First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception is "The Stoker", which serves as a first chapter for the novel Amerika).
The Castle (German: Das Schloß) is a 1997 film by Austrian director Michael Haneke. It is an adaptation of Franz Kafka 's absurdist 1926 novel released theatrically in Germany , The Czech Republic , Japan , Canada , and the United States , but first shown on television in Austria .
Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared), [1] Amerika: The Missing Person [2] and Lost in America, [3] is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 [4] and published posthumously in 1927.
Richard and Samuel is an unfinished novel by Max Brod and Franz Kafka.It was started in November 1911, and only the first chapter was written. [1] The text with an outline of the plot and characters appeared in the May 1912 edition of Herder-Blätter, edited by Willy Haas, a close friend of both Brod and Kafka.