# The Castle

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- Book: [The Castle](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-castle) ([The Castle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka/the-castle.md))
- Authors: [Franz Kafka](https://www.bookquiver.com/franz-kafka)
- Publisher: union_square_co
- ISBN: 978-14-5497-093-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2027-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A darkly comic novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, The Castle follows a man grappling with his inscrutable new master's authority, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line. Published posthumously in 1926, The Castle is Franz Kafka's final, unfinished novel, and a dark, surrealistic exploration of bureaucracy and alienation. Known or its absurdity and labrinthine plot, the novel follows a land surveyor known as " K" who, after moving for work, is drawn to a mysterious yet inaccessible castle that governs his new village. Irving Howe praised the book as projecting " a greater strength of will than we have encountered in Kafka’s earlier writings—an effort to overcome the muteness of existence.”