Title: Kafka's K. versus the castle
First published: 1996
Description: Kafka's last novel is preoccupied with an elusive authority named "the Castle". By insisting on entering the Castle, the protagonist K. inadvertently deconstructs its very presence: K. discovers that the Castle only exists as a rhetorical paradigm in the language of the village. This experience is the basis for K.'s existential maturation. Instead of striving to find meaning in a transcendent authority, K. gradually becomes responsible for his own subjective identity.
Subjects: Kafka, franz, 1883-1924
People: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
LC classification: PT2621.A26 S427 1996