The Castle

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modernist literature novel surrealist fiction unfinished work

The Castle is a surreal, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka that follows a land surveyor’s futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious, bureaucratic authority that governs a remote village.

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Label Occurrences
The Castle canonical 2
Das Schloss 1
Di festung 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf modernist literature ⓘ
novel ⓘ
surrealist fiction ⓘ
unfinished work ⓘ
author Franz Kafka ⓘ
centralTheme alienation ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ
power and authority ⓘ
the absurdity of bureaucracy ⓘ
the unattainability of authority ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Austro-Hungarian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Austria-Hungary
depicts labyrinthine bureaucracy ⓘ
editor Max Brod ⓘ
genre absurdist fiction ⓘ
existentialist fiction ⓘ
modernist novel ⓘ
novel ⓘ
hasAdaptation The Castle (1968 film) ⓘ
The Castle (1994 film) ⓘ
stage adaptations ⓘ
hasCharacter Amalia ⓘ
Barnabas Collins ⓘ
surface form: Barnabas

Freda ⓘ
surface form: Frieda

K. ⓘ
Klamm ⓘ
Olga ⓘ
the village mayor ⓘ
influencedBy Franz Kafka's experiences with bureaucracy ⓘ
literaryMovement modernism ⓘ
literarySignificance key text in 20th-century modernist fiction ⓘ
major work in Kafka's oeuvre ⓘ
mainCharacter K. ⓘ
narrativePerspective third-person ⓘ
narrativeStatus unfinished ⓘ
notableFeature depiction of opaque bureaucracy ⓘ
open-ended narrative ⓘ
originalLanguage German ⓘ
originalTitle The Castle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Das Schloss
posthumousPublication true ⓘ
protagonistOccupation land surveyor ⓘ
publicationYear 1926 ⓘ
relatedWork Amerika ⓘ
The Trial ⓘ
setting remote village ⓘ
unnamed Central European village ⓘ
workFocus futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious authority ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

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Franz Kafka → notableWork → The Castle ⓘ
The Castle → originalTitle → The Castle self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Das Schloss
Das Schloss → translationOfName → The Castle ⓘ
Avrom Sutzkever → notableWork → The Castle ⓘ
this entity surface form: Di festung