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In The Castle, a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with the Land Surveyor 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.
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Castle, Franz Kafka
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Castle
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Franz Kafka
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 298
- ISBN10
- 0140181083
- ISBN13
- 9780140181081
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, German Literature, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Adapted for Film, Jews, Psychological novels, Searching for the meaning of life, Thinking, Czech Comics, Classicism, Absurdity, Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
- First published
- 1926
- Original title
- Das Schloss
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- In The Castle, a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with the Land Surveyor 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.