The Castle
- Publisher : SelfMadeHero
- Publishing year : November 2013
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781906838676
- Imprint : Selfmadehero
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
The protagonist, known only as K. , arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with ...
The protagonist, known only as K. , arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle above it shrouded in mist. Attempting to gain contact with the inhabitants of the castle, the officials who run the bureaucracy that governs the village, K. Repeatedly finds himself misunderstanding and transgressing the multitude of confusing and contradictory rules and regulations that dictate the daily life of the villagers.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) is a Jewish Czechoslovakian who wrote in German, and who ranks among the twentieth-century's most acclaimed writers. His works evoke anxiety, alienation and uncertainty in a world that is largely unfeeling and unfamiliar. He bequeathed his main body of work to long-time friend Max Brod, asking for it to be burned unread. Brod disobeyed Kafka's, whose work is now considered among the most original in Western literature.
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