The Castle

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.