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portada The Essential Kafka. The Castle, The Trial (Wordsworth Classics)
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Illustrated by
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19.6 x 12.7 x 3.6 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9781840227260

The Essential Kafka. The Castle, The Trial (Wordsworth Classics)

Franz Kafka (Author) · Marianne Williamson (Translated by) · Keith Carabine (Illustrated by) · Wordsworth Editions · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Essential Kafka. The Castle, The Trial (Wordsworth Classics)"

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka's world, it is never completely clear just what the nightmare is. The Trial, where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and if there is any help to be had, it will come from unexpected sources, is a chilling, blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a relentless atmosphere of disorientation. Superficially about bureaucracy, it is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature. Still more enigmatic is The Castle. Is it an allegory of a quasi-feudal system giving way to a new freedom for the subject? The search by a central European Jew for acceptance into a dominant culture? A spiritual quest for grace or salvation? An individual's struggle between his sense of independence and his need for approval? Is it all of these things? And K? Is he opportunist, victim, or an outsider battling against elusive authority? Finally, in his fables, Kafka deals in dark and quirkily humorous terms with the insoluble dilemmas of a world which offers no reassurance, and no reliable guidance to resolving our existential and emotional uncertainties and anxieties.
Franz Kafka
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(Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 1883 - Kierling, Austria, 1924) Escritor bohemo en lengua alemana. Su obra, de las más influyentes de la literatura universal, es una de las pioneras en la fusión de elementos realistas con fantásticos y tiene como principales temas los conflictos paternofiliales, la ansiedad, el existencialismo, la brutalidad física y psicológica, la culpa, la filosofía del absurdo, la burocracia y las transformaciones espirituales. Escribió novelas insignes y gran número de relatos cortos, además dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo y el expresionismo. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura. El término kafkiano se usa en español para describir situaciones insólitas, por lo absurdas y angustiosas.
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Marianne Williamson
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Autora norteamericana, conferenciante y activista.​ Ha escrito 13 libros, incluyendo cuatro bestsellers número uno del New York Times en la categoría "Consejería, Aprende Cómo y Miscelánea".​

Es la fundadora del Proyecto Angel Food, un programa voluntario de entrega de alimentos, dirigido a personas confinadas en sus hogares que viven con VIH u otras enfermedades terminales.​ Es también cofundadora de The Peace Alliance, una organización de base y sin fines de lucro sobre educación e incidencia que respalda proyectos de construcción de paz.
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