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Based on Pasley Critical German Text (1982, revised 1990). 1998 translator: Mark Harman who also writes a preface.

Based on the Schocken 1951 supposedly definitive edition.

1954 translators: Willa and Edwin Muir additional sections translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser.

The edition includes an Homage by Thomas Mann.

1941 translators: Willa and Edwin Muir.

Published By Secker & Warburg in England and Alfred A. Based on the First German edition, by Max Brod.

1930 translators: Willa Muir and ( Edwin Muir).

But they met with resistance from the Kafka heirs and Pasley. At one time Stroemfeld/Roter Stern Verlag did work for the rights to publish a critical edition with manuscript and transcription side-by-side. Interpretations of Kafka's intent for the manuscript are ongoing.

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This team restored the original German text to its full and incomplete state, including Kafka's unique punctuation, considered critical to the style. Das SchloГџ was published that year as a two-volume setВ - the novel in the first volume, and the fragments, deletions, and editor's notes in a second volume. Pasley and a team of scholars (Gerhard Neumann, Jost Schillemeit, and JГјrgen Born) started publishing the works in 1982 through S. In 1961 Malcolm Pasley got access to all of Kafka's works except The Trial, and deposited them in Oxford's Bodleian Library. The publisher soon realized the translations were 'bad' and in 1940 desired a 'completely different approach'. This is one possible interpretation of the work based on numerous Judeo-Christian references as noted by many including Arnold Heidsieck. Д«rod placed a strong religious significance on the symbolism of the castle. Brod donated the manuscript to Oxford University. This would play heavily in the future of the translations and continues to be the center of discussion on the text. His goal was to gain acceptance of the work and the author, not to maintain the structure of Kafka's writing. Д«rod heavily edited the work to ready it for publication. It was republished in 1935 by Schocken Verlag in Berlin, and in 1946 by Schocken Books of New York. This edition sold far less than the 1500 copies that were printed. Das Schloss was originally published in German in 1926 by the publisher Joella Goodman of Munich. As it is, the book ends mid-sentence.ДЄlthough Brod was instructed by Kafka to destroy all of his unpublished works on his death, he instead set about publishing many of them. At one point he told his friend Max Brod that the novel would conclude with K., the book's protagonist, continuing to reside in the village until his death the castle would notify him on his deathbed that his 'legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there.' However, on 11 September 1922 in a letter to Brod, he wrote he was giving up on the book and would never return to it. Kafka died before he could finish the novel, and it is questionable whether he intended to finish it if he had survived his tuberculosis.

Hence, the significance that the first few chapters of the handwritten manuscript were written in the first person and at some point later changed by Kafka to a third-person narrator, 'K.' Max Brod A picture taken of him upon his arrival shows him by a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow in a setting reminiscent of The Castle. Kafka began writing the novel on the evening of 27 January 1922, the day he arrived at the mountain resort of SpindlermГјhle (now in the Czech Republic). Franz Kafka (far right) arriving in Spindelmuehle in 1922