Sunday 16 May 2010

K meets Frieda on his way to the castle


"The Castle (Das Schloß) is a novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist, known only as K., struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle who govern the village where he wants to work as a land surveyor. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with the Land Surveyor dying in the village; the castle notifying him on his death bed that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there". Dark and at times surreal The Castle is about alienation, burocracy, and the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to stand against the system."

From Wikipedia

3 comments:

  1. That Frieda looks like she didn't have Special K for breakfast

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  2. Corríjame Sr. Grillo pero tengo entendido que Kafka escribió "El Castillo" en homenaje al inconmensurable Dr. Alberto Castillo después de escucharlo cantar "qué saben los pitucos, lamidos y shushetas...".

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