Das Schloß
By Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was born to Jewish parents in Bohemia in 1883. Kafka’s father was a luxury goods retailer who worked long hours and as a result never became close with his son. Kafka’s relationship with his father greatly influenced his later writing and directly informed his Brief an den Vater (Letter to His Father). Kafka had a thorough education and was fluent in both German and Czech. As a young man, he was hired to work at an insurance company where he was quickly promoted despite his desire to devote his time to writing rather than insurance. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote a great number of stories, letters, and essays, but burned the majority of his work before his death and requested that his friend Max Brod burn the rest. Brod, however, did not fulfill this request and published many of the works in the years following Kafka’s death of tuberculosis in 1924. Thus, most of Kafka’s works were published posthumously, and he did not live to see them recognized as some of the most important examples of literature of the twentieth century. Kafka’s works are considered among the most significant pieces of existentialist writing, and he is remembered for his poignant depictions of internal conflicts with alienation and oppression. Some of Kafka’s most famous works include The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.
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Reviews for Das Schloß
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Only a total stranger could ask such a question. Are there control agencies? There are only control agencies. Of course they aren’t meant to find errors, in the vulgar sense of that term, since no errors occur, and even if an error does occur, as in your case, who can finally say that it is an error.
We were all once younger. I don't know if we have all been haunted. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I would like to see where Kafka would have taken this unfinished novel which stops in mid-sentence. His protagonist K. seems so unreflective and tossed about by those around him. Chock full of that patented dark Kafka humor, it lurches from one slightly nightmarish episode to another, and the translation seems to catch the dreamlike prose that this novel is known for. A bit frustrating to read, for Kafka seems to dispense with paragraphs for many pages at a time. It really slowed me down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5a novel of the futility of trying. go ahead. read it. i dare you.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5No conclusion. Everyone was extremely analytical.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Absolutely incomprehensible!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I love the trial, and many of Kafka's short stories but the castle lacks something somehow. Maybe it's the way the oppressive, intense rush of a confusing modern world that Kafka captures so well elsewhere can hardly hope to be translated into the medievalesque setting of this novel. It comes across as rather twee and annoying.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was weird, but not as weird, or as difficult, as I was expecting. The narrative flows reasonably well. There are passages that go on interminably, but there's enough action to make them bearable. It felt like reading someone else's crazy dream, with the contradictions and strange passage of time. Poor K. Accepted into the village for all the wrong reasons. I see where The Prisoner TV show got its ideas from now!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A frustrating reading experience. Finished 3 chapters and thought i'd better leave it alone for now. Will eventually revisit, but for now it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nog bevreemdender dan Het Proces, maar prachtige scènes. Andermaal het individu tegenover de onzichtbare almacht, maar minstens evenzeer over hoe de perceptie van mensen doorslaggevend is. Tegelijk een soort Bildungsroman : als K. aankomt is hij een onbeschreven blad, maar hij probeert hardnekkig dat blad ingevuld te krijgen.Eerste keer gelezen toen ik 17 was.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kafka is interesting, that's for sure. But his style does not work well for me, I find it a chore to read even though I'm intrigued by it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I'm getting off the Kafka train at the next stop.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've read the chapters in different orders and the story had meaning every time. Fascinating and twisted, but that is Kafka for you.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Castle always has the advantage . . .
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5"I want to go to the castle!" "You can't get there from here.""But I need to go the castle!""You can't get there from here."I hated this book.