The Castle

Contributors

By Franz Kafka

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jan 19, 2027
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13
9781454970934

Price

$12.99

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$16.99 CAD

Format

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  1. Trade Paperback $12.99 $16.99 CAD
  2. ebook $4.99 $6.99 CAD

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 writingsan effort to overcome the muteness of existence.”


Franz Kafka

About the Author

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-speaking Czech Jewish novelist known for existential, surrealist works that reckon with themes such as bureaucracy and alienation. Some of his most well-known works included The Metamorphosis and The Trial.

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