The Castle is a 1926 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.
Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would
end with K. dying in the village, the castle notifying him on his death bed
that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking
certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work
there".
Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business
with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile
pursuit of an unobtainable goal.
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