The Castle by Franz Kafka [1969 HARDCOVER] • The Modern Library • Definitive Edition

The Castle by Franz Kafka with an homage by Thomas Mann

DEFINITIVE EDITION HARDCOVER [1969] THE MODERN LIBRARY

Compact vintage hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   

Dust jacket shows some visible wear; but otherwise clean and intact.  Housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent.   Front endpaper appears to have been torn out.  Otherwise reads good as new; clean, unmarked pages.  Mild discoloration to lower edge of yellow cloth. 

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.

Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.