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The Castle

Franz Kafka

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Apr 29, 2018 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: must-read, relationships, moving-and-starting-over, the-classics-club

Can a reader say I liked The Castle? Loved it? If one does, what does that say about the reader?

I think all would agree that The Castle has one of the oddest plots ever written. A man comes to a castle, wants to work there, and has to find ways to get the attention of the people in the castle. He never does much of anything in the story except try to gain entry to the castle and he never successfully does that.

It's the feeling of the book that is so close to the bone; it's a story of the feeling ...more

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Jan 01, 2013 Bogdan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: central-europe

This is the third Kafka Franz's novel I have read in a space of couple of years, without counting several short stories. And each time I am a little puzzled by these texts, as they are quite strange. It is hard for me to crack this strangeness and explain it since the worlds he creates are appearing to resemble reality but still have different rules and social patterns than I would expect. It is like in those not-so-distant sci-fi novels where some things are similar as in the present and others ...more

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