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Title: The Trial by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0-8052-0999-9 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Difficult, but definitely worth the effort
Comment: The Trial is a book not meant for people who like to read modern mindless babble by the likes of King and Koontz. This book will force you to think to get anything out of it. But especially interesting and enlightening was the chapter entitled "The Cathedral". There's a lot of insight in this single chapter that not only will help explain a lot of the book, but also possibly make the reader think about his/her own life in a slightly different perspective.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh, I am just so mad!
Comment: I giving the book 5 stars, because it's a really good read. Not having read any other translation, I must take other reviewer's word that it compares well. Read the other reviews, they are correct about this books quality.
Now, here's why I am mad. I read the introduction. Then I read the translator's notes. The translator is quite full of himself and his cleverness. Thus he points out the sections where he was particularly clever. In doing so, he gives away the plot, the ending of the novel, and why we should think about it the way he translated it, and not trust earlier transactions.
This should have been an afterward, not before the text. I reviewed the plot, including the ending, before reading the text. This somewhat ruined the experience for me. Skip the translator's notes, and you'll have a fine edition of Kafka's influntial novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Welcome, my son, to the machine
Comment: Kafka crafts a sometime eerie, sometime funny, but always fascinating work that details the criminal legal system's prosecution/persecution of a "Josef K." The book's famous first sentence ominously forebodes the grinding machine that slowly devours Josef: a nameless, invisible bureaucracy that is omnipotent in its reach and accountable to no one. Although many novels written in the 20th century have appropriated similar versions of totalitarianism (1984, Brave New World, etc.), it should be noted that The Trial provided the template and, if you ask me, continues to stand without peer in its brilliant construction of terror caused by absurdity. Indeed, this book is, unsurprisingly, the prototypical example of the 'Kafkaesque:' feelings of guilt and alienation triggered by menacing forces that are bound by their own impenetrable logic. Anyone interested in 20th century literature ought to do himself or herself a favour and read The Trial, since the Kafkaesque informs so many of the themes and approaches to writing adopted by the century's top stylists.
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Title: The Castle : A new translation based on the restored text by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805211063 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805210555 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared: The New Translation by Michael Hofmann by Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann ISBN: 081121513X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka ISBN: 0805209069 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Plague by Albert Camus ISBN: 0679720219 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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