The Castle

By Franz Kafka

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Franz Kafka's unfinished novel about K., a land surveyor who arrives in a village and struggles in vain to reach the mysterious authorities who govern it from the castle.

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• Lex Fridman: “Let me mention some other of Kafka's work that was moving to me. The Castle has similar description as The Trial does of the absurd inaccessibility of those in authority, of the nightmarish bureaucracy.”