Left unfinished when Kafka abandoned it in 1922, The Castle is nonetheless the most strangely complete of his three great novels — its fascinating conclusions arriving with an inexplicable sense of resolution. At its centre is K., a Land Surveyor who arrives unwanted, can never gain admittance to the Castle, finds no acceptance in the village, and yet cannot bring himself to leave. The absurd, labyrinthine world K. inhabits is one of colliding dualities — certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense — and his struggles within it seem to illuminate something profound and unnameable about the nature of existence itself.
ISBN 13: 9780241197806
Author: Franz Kafka
