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"The Castle" is one of Franz Kafka's most famous works and one of the most profound philosophical novels of the twentieth century. It was not finished by the writer and was first published after his death in 1926 by his friend Max Brod. The plot of "The Castle" is absurd, but at the same time plausible: a surveyor K. arrives in a certain Village and tries to get into the Castle, where he is not allowed. The complex system of bureaucracy becomes entangled in a tangle, which there is no way to unravel, and therefore there is no way to get to the Castle, no matter how roundabout you go. But satire on the bureaucratic system is only one of the novel's subtexts.
The entire artistic space is limited to the Village and the inaccessible Castle. Time flows irrationally here. "The Castle" is primarily a metaphor through which the signs of reality peek through. The castle is quite concrete, and at the same time it is a mirage. Maybe the road to it is the road to God, and the Village is just a prototype of our earthly world?
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