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Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmuhle.

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From: New Criterion
Date: 19981101
Author:Ormsby, Eric

The standard English translation of Franz Kafka's 'The Castle' is inaccurate, partly because Kafka constructed the book to reflect both sordid and sublime aspects of existence. The 1930 translation emphasizes the spiritual aspects of the book, and the 1990, the literal, and neither is correct. A new version is scheduled to appear in 1998, to which the owners of Kafka's manuscript are opposed.

There is a photograph still extant of Franz Kafka arriving in Spindelmuhle, the winter resort where on the same evening of January 27, 1922, he began writing The Castle. Like the country doctor of ...

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