The Castle
the Castle ( Das Schloß in German) is a Romance unfinished of Franz Kafka (the text stops in the middle of a sentence, Kafka had given up the writing of it 11 months before its death), published after its death in 1926.
In this novel, the main character, K. (as in the Lawsuit ), one knows nothing, arrive in a village at the foot of a castle. The remainder of the history tells the desperate efforts of K. to achieve its work, in vain.
Several interpretations were given of this novel. Some see in the Castle a Métaphore of the State and administration - of its distance and its rigidity -; others, more Metaphysical S, see in this inaccessible castle a representation of the Paradis, the character being in a kind of purgatory. The bureaucratic labyrinth of the Château can also represent mental confusion without exit present in any human being.
Alexandre Vialatte published a translation in French of this novel.
Adaptations
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1969: the Castle , film of Rudolf Noelte with Maximilian Schell and Cordula Trantow
- 1997: the Castle , televisual adaptation by Michael Haneke with Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar.
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