Castle (recommended Version for the Fourth Division)
by Kafka
About This Novel
This version of "The Castle" is designated and recommended by four well-known writers, Mai Jia, Su Tong, Alai, and Ma Jiahui, with an in-depth preface by Su Tong, the Mao Dun Literature Award winner. The protagonist K came to stay in the village at the foot of the castle late at night in the heavy snow, claiming to be a land surveyor hired by the Earl, the owner of the castle. According to common sense, if you want to go somewhere, there must be many ways to get there. But K ran around the village every day, but he could never enter the castle that was visible to the naked eye and not far away. The castle is a huge bureaucracy, but the people who have strong feelings about its bureaucracy are not the villagers there, but K, the outsider. The villagers silently guarded the fear of the castle passed down from generation to generation. Only K, the intruder, questioned the rationality of everything. Everyone lives in the system, but few people can see through the system. "The Castle" only wrote about a land surveyor, and it dealt with an era in depth. Yu Hua once commented that "Kafka's focus on water drops is to make all sea water appear automatically."
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