[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - Castle ([Pocket Edition])

Author: Kafka
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Kafka is a renowned Austrian novelist, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, and one of the founders of Western modernist literature. He is revered as the pioneer by literary movements such as absurdism and nouveau roman. The Castle is Kafka's masterpiece of the novel, widely recognized as the most Kafkaesque and also one of the most important works. After the publication of Kafka's novels, they caused a huge impact on the world literary scene and sparked debates among critics. Due to their portrayal of the theme of "the confusion of modern people," Kafka's works ignited a "Kafka fever" in Western society. The renowned American poet W. H. Auden remarked, "In terms of the relationship between a writer and his time, Kafka can be ranked alongside Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe." Kafka's unique creative style has profoundly influenced the literary world of various countries today. The Czech novelist Milan Kundera ranked Kafka and Cervantes as the two literary masters who had the greatest influence on him. The Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez stated that after reading The Metamorphosis, Kafka showed him "that literature still holds many other possibilities." Chinese avant-garde writers such as Yu Hua, Ge Fei, and Can Xue have also been deeply influenced by Kafka.