Castle. Travel diaries. Eight notebooks

"The Castle" is the last unfinished and most mysterious novel by Franz Kafka. At the heart of the novel, as in almost all of the writer's works, are the secretive, illogical, incomprehensible relationships of a person with the world, with the system, with power, with other people. The main character K. wanders the paths of the winter Village for six days, trying to find the way to the Castle. The story of the hero resembles the vicissitudes of the fate of the author himself and also tragically conveys the loneliness and helplessness of a person in his confrontation with the cruelty and absurdity of life.
The publication also contains "Travel Diaries" (1911-1912), in which Kafka described trips to Friedland, Reichenberg, Paris, Jungborn, and other cities, and "Eight Notebooks" (1917-1919), small notebooks in the eighth part of a page, in which the writer jotted down his poetic fantasies, fragments of future works and aphorisms.