Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known
only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an
inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle.
Although Kafka seemed to consider `The Castle` a failure, critics,
in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one
of the great novels of our century. Unfinished at Kafka's death in
1924, the manuscript of `The Castle` was edited for publication by
Kafka's friend and literary executor, Max Brod. Both Brod's edition
and the English-language translation of it that was prepared by
Willa and Edwin Muir in 1930 have long been considered flawed. This
new edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the
product of an international team of experts who went back to
Kafka's original manuscript and notes to create an edition that is
as close as possible to the way the author left it. The `Times
Literary Supplement` hailed their work, saying that it will
`decisively alter our understanding of Kafka and render previous
editions obsolete.` Mark Harman's brilliant translation closely
follows the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated
original manuscript, revealing levels of comedy, energy, and visual
power that have not been previously accessible to English-language
readers. W. H. Auden likened Kafka to Dante, Shakespeare, and
Goethe as the single most important writer of his age. Here, in
this new edition, is a Kafka for the twenty-first century.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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