The Trial · America · In The Penal Settlement · Metamorphosis · The Castle · The Great Wall Of China · Investigations Of A Dog · Letter To His Father · The Diaries 1910-23: Complete & Unabridged
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few names in Western literature carry as much haunting weight as Franz Kafka, and this magnificent omnibus — gathering his novels, short fiction, personal letters, and diaries in one complete and unabridged volume — stands as the definitive testament to his singular genius. The collection chronicles the full sweep of Kafka's literary universe: from the terrifying bureaucratic nightmare of The Trial, in which Josef K. is arrested without explanation and condemned by a faceless court, to the bleak, fog-shrouded village of The Castle, where a man known only as K. wages an endless, futile battle to reach an authority that remains forever out of reach. Alongside these towering novels sit America, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Settlement, The Great Wall of China, and Investigations of a Dog, each a precise and unsettling dissection of alienation, guilt, and the absurdity of modern existence. Beyond the fiction, this volume presents a rare intimacy with Kafka the man: his anguished Letter to His Father uncovers the psychological wounds that shadowed his entire life, while The Diaries 1910–23 illuminate the restless, self-scrutinising mind behind the prose, offering an unfiltered record of a writer perpetually at war with himself and the world around him. Kafka's style — spare, relentless, and dreamlike — argues against any easy comfort, drawing the reader into landscapes where logic bends and dread is domesticated into the everyday. This is not merely a collection; it is a complete portrait of one of the twentieth century's most indispensable literary visionaries, and once entered, Kafka's world is one you will never entirely leave.
Author: Franz Kafka
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Secker and Warburg/ Octopus.
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few names in Western literature carry as much haunting weight as Franz Kafka, and this magnificent omnibus — gathering his novels, short fiction, personal letters, and diaries in one complete and unabridged volume — stands as the definitive testament to his singular genius. The collection chronicles the full sweep of Kafka's literary universe: from the terrifying bureaucratic nightmare of The Trial, in which Josef K. is arrested without explanation and condemned by a faceless court, to the bleak, fog-shrouded village of The Castle, where a man known only as K. wages an endless, futile battle to reach an authority that remains forever out of reach. Alongside these towering novels sit America, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Settlement, The Great Wall of China, and Investigations of a Dog, each a precise and unsettling dissection of alienation, guilt, and the absurdity of modern existence. Beyond the fiction, this volume presents a rare intimacy with Kafka the man: his anguished Letter to His Father uncovers the psychological wounds that shadowed his entire life, while The Diaries 1910–23 illuminate the restless, self-scrutinising mind behind the prose, offering an unfiltered record of a writer perpetually at war with himself and the world around him. Kafka's style — spare, relentless, and dreamlike — argues against any easy comfort, drawing the reader into landscapes where logic bends and dread is domesticated into the everyday. This is not merely a collection; it is a complete portrait of one of the twentieth century's most indispensable literary visionaries, and once entered, Kafka's world is one you will never entirely leave.