The castle is Kafkas last long story, written in the last years of his life. The castle is a work with a distinct Kafka style. Unfortunately, after the novel was not finished, Kafka left the world.
K claims to be a land surveyor, but the castle does not recognize hiring land surveyors. Therefore, K has no right to live in the village, nor to enter the castle. So K first went to the village head, and the village chief told him to hire K to be a mistake, so in order to compensate for the fault, K was arranged to look at the school for a primary school, and the school did not lack the doorman. In the end, K discovered that he was a useless man to the castle, and of course he could not enter the castle. Kafka is a Czech man. He is the master and explorer of Western modernist literature. His creative style is expressionism and is the most accomplished writer among the expressionist writers. The main period of his life and creation was before and after the first World War, when the economy was depressed, social corruption, and the people were poor, which made Kafka live in pain and loneliness all his life. Thus, the sense of strangeness, loneliness and fear became the eternal theme of his creation. Auden, an English poet, said to Kafka, "Kafka is very important to us because his predicament is the plight of the modern people.
On the other hand, the castle is also a symbol of abstract idealization. There are always different opinions about the castle. What the individual most agrees with is that the castle symbolizes an idealized equal society, but K can not reach it until death. Not only the castle appears indistinct, hazy, the figure and the story itself are also flickering, not only the typical character, but also not the typical environment, the effort to enter the castle is like a symbol of the pursuit of good things, K symbolizes the people who are struggling in the social life. Kafkas knowledge is unique and critical, which depicts the description of characters. Kafka writes about the small people living in the lower layer. They are in the world of contradiction and distortion. They are afraid, uneasy, lonely, perplexed, oppressed and dare not resist, and they can not resist. We will feel a lot of shock and fear to see the picture he has painted for us, as he seems to be in a rush of alarm for the future of mankind, and he is worried about the future of mankind. In a cloudy day, I read the book again, as if I was in the same confusion as the hero K. The greatness of Kafkas works lies in the loneliness and predicament in his works, and sometimes the loneliness and predicament in the present and future.
When reading, you can feel the despair of K. Neither is it in nor is it a retreat. In order to enter the castle, it took a lot of trouble to fully feel the inconstancy of the world, but still failed to enter. However, the value of this book is not only to feel that dilemma, but also to get a mental wash, a calm state.
In the story, the castle under the fog, the village under the castle, the strange things, can feel a grotesque atmosphere, let the people be eathless, mysterious. Everyones thoughts and behaviors seem to be hidden in the darkness, revealing only the tip of the iceberg. In such an environment, K is surrounded by fear and loneliness. It seems not strange. Ubiquitous confusion and fear, K has been insisting on whatever obstacles it may encounter.