Kafka's last novel is preoccupied with an elusive authority named ???the Castle???. By insisting on entering the Castle, the protagonist K. inadvertently deconstructs its very presence: K. discovers that the Castle only exists as a rhetorical paradigm in the language of the village. This experience is the basis for K.'s existential maturation. Instead of striving to find meaning in a transcendent authority, K. gradually becomes responsible for his own subjective identity.
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Kafka's last novel is preoccupied with an elusive authority named ???the Castle???. By insisting on entering the Castle, the protagonist K. inadvertently deconstructs its very presence: K. discovers that the Castle only exists as a rhetorical paradigm in the language of the village. This experience is the basis for K.'s existential maturation. Instead of striving to find meaning in a transcendent authority, K. gradually becomes responsible for his own subjective identity.
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Add this copy of Kafka's K. Versus the Castle: the Self and the Other to cart. $42.54, good condition, Sold by More Than Words rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Waltham, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers.
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1996, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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1996
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English
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