num_pages: 378
description: From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial , and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.As the villagers and the Castle officials block his efforts at every turn, K.’s consuming quest–quite possibly a self-imposed one–to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take its measure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that the would-be surveyor in The Castle is driven by a wish “to get clear about ultimate things,” an unrealizable desire that provided the driving force behind all of Kafka’s dazzlingly uncanny fictions. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
language: English
title: The Castle
titlecomplete: The Castle
characters: Hans Brunswick, Fräulein Gisa, Gerstäcker, Barnabas' Vater, Artur und Jeremias, Lasemann, Schwarzer, Momus, Pepi, Sortini, Frau Brunswick, Mizzi, Frieda, Grafen Westwest, Erlanger, Herrenhof Wirt, Dorfvorsteher, Seemann, Galater, Barnabas, Herrenhof Wirtin, Olga, Brügel, Klamm, Lehrer, Amalia, Otto Brunswick, Barnabas' Mutter, K., Sordini, Friedrich, Gardena
genres: Fiction, Czech Literature, 20th Century, Classics, Philosophy, Dystopia, German Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 59726
places: Czechoslovakia
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: J.A. Underwood
publisher: Everyman's Library