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A surveyor confronts bureaucracy on the way to an inaccessible Castle
The Castle is one of the most famous works of Franz Kafka and one of the most profound philosophical novels of the twentieth century. It was unfinished by the writer and was first published after his death in 1926 by his friend Max Brod. The plot of the "Castle" is absurd, but at the same time plausible: a surveyor K. comes to a certain Village and tries to get into the Castle, where he is not allowed. A complex system of bureaucracy becomes entangled in a tangle, which there is no way to unravel, which means that there is no way to get into the Castle, no matter how roundabout ways you go. But the satire on the bureaucratic system is only one of the subtexts of the novel.
The entire art space is limited by the Village and the inaccessible Castle. Time flows irrationally here. "The castle" is primarily a metaphor through which the signs of reality can be seen. The castle is quite concrete, and at the same time it is a mirage. Maybe the road to him is the road to God, and the Village is just a prototype of our earthly world?
