by Franz Kafka · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432222177
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«El Castillo» is the novel by Franz Kafka published by Seix Barral in its 1984 paperback edition, with 512 pages in Spanish.
A land surveyor named K. arrives in a village dominated by a castle to work in its service, but local bureaucracy prevents him from contacting the authorities. Published posthumously and unfinished, the novel turns alienation, the search for recognition and frustration before power into a wait without exit.
Edition within the Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea collection, volume 54, with translation by J. A. Moyano. Work originally published in 1926 as Das Schloß.
A work for readers of twentieth-century classics and for those seeking fictions about bureaucratic alienation.
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexicon to describe situations like those depicted in his writings. His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926). He is also celebrated for his brief fables and aphorisms, which frequently incorporated comedic elements alongside the darker themes of his longer works. His work has widely influenced artists, philosophers, composers, filmmakers, literary historians, religious scholars, and cultural theorists.
