
The Castle
Franz Kafka (1926)
“A land surveyor arrives at a village governed by an unreachable Castle. He never gets in. The novel was never finished. Both facts are the point.”
EraModernist / Expressionist
Pages316
Difficulty★★★★★ Expert
AP Appearances3
Major Themes
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