The Castle

Synopsis

An acclaimed translation of the final work by franz kafka—author of metamorphosis and some of the twentieth century's greatest literature—following the story of a man's bizarre, unending struggle to carry out his mysterious new job a penguin classicthe 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, k.