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Overview
Kafka's last novel is preoccupied with an elusive authority named the Castle . By insisting on entering the Castle, the protagonist K. inadvertently deconstructs its very presence: K. discovers that the Castle only exists as a rhetorical paradigm in the language of the village. This experience is the basis for K.'s existential maturation. Instead of striving to find meaning in a transcendent authority, K. gradually becomes responsible for his own subjective identity.
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- ISBN-13: 9780820425399
- ISBN-10: 0820425397
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: April 1996
- Page Count: 110
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