This is the only book by Kafka that I have never finished reading. She is becoming a bit of a confessional blog no? I wanted to read this so bad. And it is good, bought it at Cheaps Thrill.
Maybe it was the fact that Kafka himself never completed it; which bothered me and made me quit some 15 or 20 pages from the end. It was like 'what is the point' I know the whole thing ends in mid sentence anyways.
Kafka was an oddball among writers, which is considerably odd. Besides the Metamorphosis he gave up on the Trial and this novel. The Trial was finished by his close friend Max Brod, Kafka had instructed him before dying to destroy both manuscripts. Instead Brod wrote a short and understandably controvertial final chapter to The Trial. Writing an ending for The Castle would have been an even bolder act.
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