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The Castle

Franz Kafka

A surveyor is lost in a labyrinth in this 1926 German novel, reflecting the author's concern with man's inability to assert himself in the face of bureaucracy. It is a new translation that restores the eccentricities in style of the original.

GenresAlienation (Philosophy)FictionBureaucracyCastlesGerman fictionTranslations into English

328 pages

English edition · First published 1998 by Schocken Books · ISBN 9780805211061

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