“If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.”

A land surveyor arrives in a small village, summoned by the authorities that work in the nearby castle. The villagers are mistrustful of the newcomer, and it is soon discovered that due to a clerical error, K. was requested by mistake. Trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare, K. keeps trying to access the castle and the mysterious Klamm, alienating the residents of the village in his fruitless pursuit of answers.

Unfinished at the time of his death in 1924, The Castle was completed and published by Kafka’s friend Max Brod – against the author’s final wishes, but with the ending that Kafka had planned. Kafka’s final work of politically charged dystopian fiction is a fitting end to his legacy as a master of the genre.

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