The Castle by Franz Kafka Paperback Book 9780241678916

Kafkas last great unfinished novel the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare With a new introduction and notes by John ZilcoskyThe Castle is the story of K the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village and yet cannot go home As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt hope and fear and reason and nonsense Ks struggles in the absurd labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished yet this the last of his three great novels draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete