The Castle, Franz Kafka Translated by Mark Harman
The Castle, Franz Kafka Translated by Mark Harman
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The Castle

Author: Franz Kafka; Translated by Mark Harman

Narrator: Geoffrey Howard

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

This new edition of Kafkas terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who used Kafkas original text and notes to render this story as close to the authors vision as possible. Kafkas final novel tells the haunting tale of a mans relentless struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. The story of Kthe unwanted land surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle and yet cannot go homeseems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. A perpetual human condition lies at the heart of this labyrinthine world: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. An unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, The Castle uses absurd fantasy to reveal a profound truth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on December 07, 2024

Is there a way to penetrate into high places? Are high places really high? Keeping his eyes fixed upon the Castle, K. went ahead, nothing else mattered to him. But as he came closer he was disappointed in the Castle, it was only a rather miserable little tower pieced together from village houses, di......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on January 30, 2025

#bibliotecaafectiva Un roman neterminat (ca toate ale lui Kafka), tipărit de Max Brod după moartea autorului, în 1926. Titlul îi aparține lui Brod. Kafka a intenționat să-l scrie la persoana întîi, dar pe parcursul redactării și-a schimbat gîndul și l-a redactat la persoana a treia: „Era seară cînd K......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 13, 2023

Warning for those wanting to read this, it is excruciating. Having said that, it is Kafka at his best. Protagonist K. enters a small village located under a large castle on a mountain, its winter, dark, cold, and forever snowing. K. enters an inn and announces he has been engaged by the Count of the......more

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