Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in
twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long
since reached international proportions, and the concept
'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part
of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a
critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the
author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned
less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles
its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its
combination of clues and counter-clues, its questions and its
uncertainties. Careful attention is therefore paid to the
'openness' of the text, to point of view, and to Kafka's use of
language. The editors also consider the important biographical and
cultural influences which shaped the writing of the story, and they
outline some of the very different ways in which it has been
interpreted --biographically, socially and psychologically. A
select vocabulary, aimed at the demands of the sixth-form pupil, is
also included, and the text itself is taken from the original
hardback edition.
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