The Castle

Author: Kafka, Franz, Underwood, J. A., Parry, Idris

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 6 June 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages
198 x 129 x 19 | 240g

Kafka's 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, K.'s 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.