The Castle (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Franz Kafka
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Modern Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Villages, Symbolism, Castles, Employment or employees, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats
- Locales: Europe
Late one evening K. stumbles into the snowbound village at the foot of a group of ramshackle buildings known as the castle. Despite a rude welcome in the village inn and a rebuffed telephone call to the castle, K. insists that he has come to work in the village at the castle’s request and that his assistants will arrive the next day.
Although the reader may readily sympathize with K.’s plight at the hands of the elusive castle officials, as the story unfolds one gradually senses K.’s dishonesty about his true identity and motives and his folly in trying to confront the...
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