Book · 1926 · Fiction

The Castle

Name: The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka

Schocken (Penguin Random House) · 352 pages

★ 8.4 editorial score

K. arrives in a village claiming the castle above it hired him as land surveyor, and never reaches anyone who can confirm it. Waiting becomes the whole of his life there.

Genre

Fantasy Absurdist fiction Political fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

The individual vs. Society Bureaucracy Social outcasts

Time

1926

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