The Castle - Franz Kafka

Category: General Fiction, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Franz Kafka kafka Metamorphosis The Castle The Trial

Written by Franz Kafka
Read by Allan Corduner
Format: M4B
Unabridged

The Castle is the last 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 supposedly owned by Count Westwest.
Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. 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.