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The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. 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.
Kafka’s The Castle is about both a castle and about deadlock. To unpick (or unlock) this enigmatic text, let’s take a closer look at it, starting with a brief summary of its plot. The Castle: plot summary.
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.
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Jun 6, 2024 · Buy The Castle by Franz Kafka, J. A. Underwood from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Oct 9, 2022 · The deterioration of the author’s health and the reality of his worsening tuberculosis likely catalyzed the issues of mortality that are prominent in The Castle. Kafka died in 1924 at the age of 41. The castle’s focal image is resonant on several levels.
The Castle. The Castle, by Franz Kafka. Shop. The Castle. $15.95. By Franz Kafka Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. “ [Harman’s translation is] semantically accurate to an admirable degree, faithful to Kafka’s nuances, and responsive to the tempo of his sentences and to the larger music of his paragraph construction.
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Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. With a new introduction and notes by John Zilcosky. The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home.
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