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"The Castle" is Kafka's most distinctive and important novel: Land surveyor K was ordered to take up a post in a certain city, but was unexpectedly blocked outside the castle gate. Therefore, the protagonist K and the castle authorities launched a long and cumbersome tug-of-war over whether to enter the castle. The castle is located on a hill in front of us, but it is just out of reach; it is so cold and majestic, like a giant beast looking down at K; it represents a huge bureaucracy with a strict hierarchy, countless departments and countless officials, but there are countless documents that have been gathered there, unattended and unprocessed for many years. Faced with this powerful castle, K was helpless and did not enter the castle until the end, nor did he see the castle authority. The novel is shrouded in a mysterious and nightmarish atmosphere from beginning to end, with profound implications and endless evocative meanings.

On the morning of Joseph K.'S 30th birthday, he was arrested by two strangers who broke into his home. But K. Did not know his crime and did not lose his personal freedom. He just needed to be tried regularly. During this year, K. Traveled around for this difficult lawsuit. He turned to painters, businessmen, lawyers, priests, etc., And obtained a lot of information about the courts and the law. However, the more K. Knew, the more confused and helpless he felt. On the eve of his 32nd birthday, K. Was arrested again and the trial came to an end.

A person, a worm. A person carrying the burden of life, an insect carrying a heavy body. When a person carrying a heavy burden suddenly turns into an insect wearing a shell one day, will the burden in his heart be relieved? When the man who became a bug looked at the world with "bug eyes," what did he see? The novel "Metamorphosis" gives the answers to these questions, which makes people sigh after reading it. The author of "The Metamorphosis" is the Austrian novelist Franz Kafka. He is known as the "pioneer of modern literature". The first person who can be compared with Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe is Kafka.

"The Castle" is one of Kafka's famous representative works. The novel tells a story: Land surveyor K was ordered to take up his post at the castle, but was stopped outside. In order to enter the castle, K launched a lengthy negotiation with the castle authorities. The castle is located on a nearby hill, but K just can't get in. A huge bureaucracy, a strict hierarchy, countless departments and officials, and mountains of paperwork that cannot be processed. Faced with this powerful castle, K failed to enter until the end. The novel is shrouded in a mysterious and strange atmosphere from beginning to end, with profound meaning and thought-provoking meaning. Since its first publication, the book has been translated into more than a dozen languages. This edition is re-edited based on the translator's original translation. It is carefully bound and designed with reference to the original German version, and is accompanied by selected illustrations to commemorate Kafka's classic masterpiece.