Charles Smith từ San Francisco de la Paz, Honduras

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04/29/2024

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2020-01-11 00:30

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The gist of Kafka's masterpiece is: faced with all the external forces of the world the individual is futile. His thoughts and his actions cannot improve his situation because, ultimately, he is not in control. The Castle is concerned with a land-surveyor (known only as K.) whose arrival at the village below the mysterious castle is met with resistance at every level of the bureaucracy. Along with The Trial, this novel is often seen as a prophetic vision of the terrorism that may be inflicted by the state upon its citizens. Whereas in The Trial Josef K. is persecuted by state violence for a crime he may or may not have committed, in The Castle is the chain of command and red-tape that oppresses K. Certainly, some of the features of both hold true of the future that unfolded beyond Kafka, but to simply reduce such a masterpiece of literature to a political pamphlet is crude and irrelevant. As well as his essentially existential argument Kafka challenges many of the conventions of his day, placing his novels firmly amongst the truly modern and innovative. We know nothing about K.'s appearance, Kafka offers no personal history or background for any of his characters, there are no psychological or philosophical observations. Kafka is concerned only with K.'s thoughts and actions as they effect the matter directly at hand, i.e. who should K. seek in order to gain official acceptance into the village, how should he question this official etc. Of course, every avenue is fruitless, and K. is forced to see out his life in conflict with the authorities. Kafka's point is not whether K. deserves acceptance, whether his claim to some administrative oversight is justified or not, when faced with the external force of the world, there is nothing anyone can do. Motives and reasons are unnecessary; things happen sometimes because they do; people and states can persecuate others simply because they are able to. Nearly 100 years after publication The Castle stands as one of the true masterpieces of literature, concerned with a universal existential problem that every human being at every moment is faced with.

Người đọc Charles Smith từ San Francisco de la Paz, Honduras

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.