The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be
admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go
home, seems to depict, like a dream from the deepest recesses of
consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.
In his introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality-to Kafka a
perpetual human condition-lies at the heart of this essentially
imaginative magnum opus: dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and
fear, reason and nonsense, harmony and disintegration. Thus, The
Castle is an unfinished novel that feels strangely complete, in which
a labyrinthine world, described in simple language and absurd
fantasy, reveals a profound truth.
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