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内容简介
一天夜里,主人公K踏雪来到城堡附近的村子里投宿,因无城堡统治者伯爵的居留许可证,没有人肯收留,几经周折,才允许暂住。他千方百计想进入城,或者希望得到村民的认同,在村里合法地安顿下来,但他到处碰壁,不为村民所接受,他面对的是一个极其荒诞的现实,他始终只是个“局外人”。到了第六天他还是没能进入城堡。《城堡》是卡夫卡的最后一部长篇小说,其“卡夫卡式”的抽象化描写达到了登峰造极的地步,是20世纪西方现代派文学中极为重要的作品。
作者简介
弗朗茨·卡夫卡(1883—1924),奥地利伟大的作家之一,被认为是现代派文学的鼻祖,表现主义文学的先驱,其作品大都用变形荒诞的形象和象征的手法,表现被充满敌意的社会环境所包围的孤立、绝望的个人,成为席卷欧洲的“现代人的困惑”的集中体现,并在欧洲掀起了一阵又一阵的“卡夫卡热”。主要作品有《城堡》、《变形记》、《饥饿艺术家》、《审判》、《乡村医生》等。
精彩书评
在15岁时读到卡夫卡的《城堡》时,便被文字中透露出的冷淡与荒唐所震撼,对于刚刚开始写作生涯的我来说,卡夫卡成为了某种象征,影响着我后来的写作风格。这种初识卡夫卡时带来的震撼至今仍未散去。
——村上春树
目录
Biographical Preface
Introduction
Note on the Text
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Franz Kafka
THE CASTLE
Explanatory Notes
精彩书摘
在15岁第一次读到卡夫卡的《城堡》时,便被文字中透露出的冷淡与荒唐所震撼,对于刚刚开始写作生涯的我来说,卡夫卡成为了某种象征,影响着我后来的写作风格。这种初识卡夫卡时带来的震撼至今仍未散去。
——村上春树
前言/序言
KAFKA’s last novel centres on a simple and compelling cluster of images. A rural castle, the property of an absent nobleman, is run by an administrative staff who dominate the village beneath the castle. The protagonist, K., coming from outside and ignorant of the village and the castle, has painfully to learn their ways and to discover that, despite all his efforts, he cannot gain access to the castle. So far, this may seem to match the associations of gloom and oppression suggested by the term ‘Kafkaesque’. Kafka, however, has much more to offer than the ‘Kafkaesque’, and if one can put aside such presuppositions, The Castle provides many surprising discoveries.
The reader of The Castle is likely already to know The Trial, and may think that Kafka has simply replaced one opaque, hierarchical authority, the court, with another, the castle. In their texture, however, the two novels differ considerably. In contrast to the anonymous city of The Trial, The Castle has a vividly presented material and social setting. We are in a remote village, in the depth of winter. The snowbound village is repeatedly evoked: ‘more and more little houses, their window-panes covered by frost-flowers’, ‘a narrow alley where the snow lay even deeper. Pulling his feet out of it as they kept sinking in again was hard work’ (p. 13). We feel how exhausting it is to have constantly to struggle through the deep snow. Moreover, the village is a community, with friendships and hatreds that go back through the generations. We learn about the village’s two inns, the humble Bridge Inn and the more pretentious Castle Inn, and about how the latter’s landlord and landlady acquired it; we meet the families of the tanner Lasemann and the cobbler Brunswick, and hear about their standing in the village; and we are told at great length about the family of Barnabas, the castle messenger, and how the family are in bad odour because of their refractory attitude towards the castle. And whenever a new figure is introduced, he or she is neatly characterized, so that even those who appear briefly — the carter Gerstacker, the village schoolmaster, the schoolmistress Gisa and her languishing suitor Schwarzer — are vivid presences.
This community is also the setting for a love story. Unlike the callous and self-centred protagonist of The Trial, the main character here is at least briefly capable of love, and the rapid development and decline of his love-affair with Frieda has moments of poignancy not
found earlier in Kafka’s work. These features offset the extensive conversations about the puzzling ways of the castle authorities, which correspond to Kafka’s profound concern with ambiguity, but which sometimes make one feel that the novel could have benefited from the work of an editor. Kafka did not complete the novel; like his others, The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared, it was published after his death by his friend Max Brod.
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