经典小说收藏版系列：卡夫卡精选（2024年新出版） Wordsworth Collectors Editions：Best of Kafka

基本信息

Publisher：Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Language：English

Format:Hardback

ISBN-13：9781840228434

Dimensions：13.46 x 18.03 cm

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书籍简介

和乔治·奥威尔一样，弗朗茨·卡夫卡也以自己的名字命名了一个噩梦世界，但在卡夫卡的世界里，噩梦到底是什么，永远都无法完全弄清楚。《审判》中，规则甚至连高官员都无法知晓，如果能得到任何帮助，那也只能来自意想不到的来源。这是一个令人不寒而栗、黑色幽默的故事，直到结束，都保持着一种无情的迷茫氛围。表面上看，这是一部关于官僚主义的作品，但归根结底，它描述了“正常”人性的荒谬之处。

《城堡》更加神秘。它是准封建制度让位于主体的新自由的寓言吗？中欧犹太人寻求文化的认可？寻求恩典或救赎的精神追求？个人在独立意识和认可需求之间的挣扎？是所有这些吗？还有 K？他是机会主义者、受害者，还是与难以捉摸的人作斗争的局外人？

在他的寓言中，卡夫卡用黑暗而又古怪幽默的方式处理了一个无法解决的困境，这个世界没有提供任何安慰，也没有可靠的指导来解决我们存在和情感上的不确定性和焦虑。

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.

作者简介

弗兰兹·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka，1883年7月3日—1924年6月3日），奥匈帝国（奥地利帝国和匈牙利组成的政合国）捷克德语小说家，本职为保险业职员。主要作品有小说《审判》《城堡》《变形记》等。

卡夫卡1883年出生于犹太商人家庭，18岁入布拉格大学学习文学和法律，1904年开始写作，主要作品为四部短篇小说集和三部长篇小说。可惜生前大多未发表，三部长篇也均未写完。他生活在奥匈帝国即将崩溃的时代，又深受尼采、柏格森哲学影响，对政治事件也一直抱旁观态度，故其作品大都用变形荒诞的形象和象征直觉的手法，表现被充满敌意的社会环境所包围的孤立、绝望的个人。

卡夫卡与法国作家马赛尔·普鲁斯特，爱尔兰作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯并称为西方现代主义文学的先驱和大师。

Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Czechoslovakian who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke the bewildering oppressiveness of modern life, of anxiety and alienation in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. Although most of his work was published posthumously, his body of work, including the novels 'The Trial' (1925) and 'The Castle' (1926) and the short stories including 'The Metamorphosis' (1915) and 'In the Penal Colony' (1914), is now considered among the most original in Western literature.