The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka: (The Trial; The Castle; America)638 pp. Epilogue by Max Brod. "In his novels Kafka evokes a nightmare world of enigmatic realities and intangible truths. The hero, or anti-hero, of both The Trial and The Castle is a man named K.--a lonely, perplexed individual, riddled with inexplicable guilt. In The Trial K. is arrested. He doesn't know why. Yet he is pulled, slowly and desperately, into the wayward processes of the law. The same (or a different?) K. in The Castle is a land surveyor, uncannily attracted to yet repelled by a strange, forbidding castle-like structure. America lies within a more traditional novelistic framework; however, a similar atmosphere pervades this work, and reality assumes a certain menace, both alient yet terrifyingly recognizable."Keyword: FRANZ KAFKA NOVELS LITERATURE TRIAL CASTLE AMERICA

Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge. Kafka's final work was left unfinished at the time of his 1924 death, and the original 1925 and subsequent editions were edited according to the standards of the day. This edition endeavors to restore the text as closely as possible to the original manuscript. In addition to the text, this volume includes a bibliography and a chronology of the author's life.