The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest.

Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark ...

2022年10月9日 · Kafka began to write the book in 1922 in a village and not, as it is tempting to imagine, in the shadow of Prague’s legendary castle. A customarily Kafkaesque yoking of the absurd and the sinister, The Castle depicts an individual’s fruitless efforts to achieve his objective within an incomprehensible authoritative structure.

The Castle, allegorical novel by Franz Kafka, published posthumously in German as Das Schloss in 1926. The setting of the novel is a village dominated by a castle.

The Castle (Das Schloss) by Franz Kafka was published in Germany in 1926. Kafka had expressed the wish that his books not be published, but his friend Max Brod ignored this after the writer’s death in 1924. The Castle did not sell well initially and its availability was restricted by Nazi efforts to ban works by German Jews like Kafka. One ...

2017年5月9日 · In The Castle, an unfinished novel published after the death of its author Franz Kafka, a protagonist known only as K arrives in a village dominated, both visually and governmentally, by a...

“The Castle”, written by Franz Kafka in 1922, falls into the category of the most significant and enigmatic philosophical novels of the XX century. In it, the writer raises an important theological problem of the path of the human being towards God.

‘The Castle’ is a novel by Franz Kafka, published posthumously in 1926. The book is set in a village dominated by a castle and tells the story of K., a land surveyor appointed by the castle authorities. The novel is considered a masterpiece of 20th-century literature and is known for its complex themes and characters.

Complete summary of Franz Kafka's The Castle. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Castle.

Kafka's writing, always known for its clarity and precision, reaches new heights in The Castle. One of the remarkable achievements of his style is his ability to foster such interpretive...