Volume 45, Number 8 · May 14, 1998

Kafka: Translators on Trial

By J.M. Coetzee
The Castle
by Franz Kafka, translated by Harman Mark

Schocken, 328 pp., $25.00

In 1921 the Scottish poet Edwin Muir and his wife Willa gave up their jobs in London and went to live on the Continent. The dollar was strong; they hoped to make ends meet by reviewing books for the American periodical The Freeman.



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