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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Official(14)Scraped 1mo ago
Can we call the author a real-critical school?
This kind of question is actually a philosophical question. You can see a certain place, but you just can't reach it.
Written to make people think about this issue
Read carefully to understand
The story is very interesting. If you read it carefully, you will get a different experience.
Kafka is a philosopher among novelists, or a philosopher who went astray and wrote novels, which gave philosophy elements of narrative and characters.
As you read, you can enter this book and realize that this book is about yourself, a certain moment in your life, or the darkest and most claustrophobic stage of your destiny.
Going to Tibet and walking in the snow, pursuing Confucianism and career are like lumps of sand.
What the castle tells us is that there is a place we can never reach
you
Give me a quinine bath
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Official(14)Scraped 1mo ago
Can we call the author a real-critical school?
This kind of question is actually a philosophical question. You can see a certain place, but you just can't reach it.
Written to make people think about this issue
Read carefully to understand
The story is very interesting. If you read it carefully, you will get a different experience.
Kafka is a philosopher among novelists, or a philosopher who went astray and wrote novels, which gave philosophy elements of narrative and characters.
As you read, you can enter this book and realize that this book is about yourself, a certain moment in your life, or the darkest and most claustrophobic stage of your destiny.
Going to Tibet and walking in the snow, pursuing Confucianism and career are like lumps of sand.
What the castle tells us is that there is a place we can never reach
you
Give me a quinine bath
