From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial- one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century-the haunting tale of K.'s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman...
From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter...
Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks new ground in exploring the relation between the individual and power, asking...
"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. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine...
Publicada p stumamente en 1926, El castillo es la m s tard a de las tres novelas que escribi Franz Kafka (1883-1924) y, pese a haber quedado inconclusa, pasa a ser una de las cumbres de la novela del siglo XX.
En ella se cuentan los infructuosos intentos del...
El final del castillo is tremendously revealing. Kafka died in 1922 of tuberculosis before finishing it. This novel is an infinite and absurd labyrinth that begins when the protagonist arrives one night in a village to fill the position of surveyor. The town is dominated...