Vintage Classics The Complete Novels: Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle

The Trial introduced me to Kafka, when his reputation hadn't reached me, and everything I read was Forsythe, war and political thrillers. I had picked it up from a friend's shelf while leaving for a train journey, thinking it must be some legal thriller. But the book was about to change what I would read henceforth. It stunned me for its sheer clinicality at handling emotions and responses and the dark. I actually started learning German to be able to understand him in his own tongue.Kafka's genuis at connecting human responses and emotions to his circumstances, and then inventing dangers so plausibly and unputdownably is unrivaled.This collection is the full peep into Kafka. He didn't write too many, and too much, anyways. But yes, as always, the true soul of Kafka's work is amiss in all the stories, and I doubt if any English translation can ever bring it out.Unless I write it. But I don't know German yet. Go for this collection at least for getting enriched by Kafka's thoughtware. He's a profound philosopher who never took himself seriously, I guess.

Good quality print and paper and not as chuncky to carry as would be expected for a kind of anthology. Good reads.

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Anything I could say about Kafka would be extraneous.

I have only read Metamorphosis and was hooked on from page one. So I definitely wanted to check his other books. And Vintage has this amazing of package of all three Kafka novels. Amerika, Trial, The Castle.Now the book condition.I can't say I'm really happy about the book condition but still it was okay