The Castle - the final novel of an eccentric genius

Literature Publishing House and Nha Nam Company have just republished the novel The Castle by the genius and eccentric writer Franz Kafka (1893 - 1924) - one of the pioneers of existentialism. This is a type of novel that is quite picky about its readers.

The Castle tells the story of K., a land surveyor, who, late one night, under the rain and snow, came to a village covered in fog and darkness, unable to see the towering hill and a large castle, following a summons to work. He asked to stay at a small inn because he could not enter the closed castle. When they learned that he was the one invited, they called him to the castle to confirm the information, but the castle side initially answered no, then corrected... The more K. tried to get into the castle, the more he was pushed away in the juggling act of administrative power represented by the faceless, illusory Mr. Klamm. And he did not have time to complete the work...

Happening in just 6 days but as long as a lifetime, K.'s story is broken, unfinished and unfinished. It is difficult to fully talk about an unfinished work, when all the details are still open, the story still has no ending, like a polysemous metaphor that the writer wants people to discover for themselves.

Kafka was an eccentric genius. During his short life, he burned many of his manuscripts. He left his works, both published and unpublished, to his close friend Max Brod in his will, with clear instructions that they were to be destroyed after his death. Thanks to Max Brod's reluctance to throw them into the fire along with Kafka's other precious legacies, The Castle has forever placed him at the pinnacle of immortal genius in world literature.

Kafka was one of the pioneers of existentialism - a philosophical movement of the early 20th century. Simply put, existentialism holds that the world can only exist if each individual lives, experiences and thinks. A person's world can only exist if he exists, and it is his thoughts, personality and how he perceives the world that make up the nature of his world. Following him are great names of world literature such as: F. Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sarte...

To feel the absurdity of human life, please accompany K. for 6 long days, to feel the same disappointment as the ending of the book and want to go back to the beginning to try to understand what Kafka wants to tell us...

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