who wrote the castle short story
For the novel by Ismail Kadare sometimes translated to the same name, see The Siege (Kadare novel). The Castle (German: Das Schloss German pronunÂ­ciaÂ­tion: [das ÊlÉs]; also spelled Das SchloÃ) is a 1926 novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as K. arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle.