![]() ![]() Soon afterwards, the schoolteacher tells K. that, since the village belongs to the castle, being in the village means (to a certain extent, ‘gewissermaßen’) being in the castle. On the very first page, Schwarzer tells K. There is indeed something circular, almost tautological about the narrative of The Castle. ![]() According to Edwin Muir, one of the first translators of Kafka, the novel takes place in a changeless present, and K.’s progress is never-ending and ‘infinitely incomplete’. K.’s own past seems relatively unimportant and we learn little about it. ![]() Kafka’s final (and arguably his best) novel is a timeless classic, ‘timeless’ because it blurs historical time: in it, pre-modern elements (peasants, tanners) and modern elements (telephones, photographs, fire engines) coexist. Das Schloss The Castle (written 1922, published 1926) ![]()
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