Franz Kafka Franz Kafka’s [1883-1924] novel, The Castle , tells the story of a man called K who is on a futile quest. K arrives as a land surveyor in the village which is under the jurisdiction of the Castle. But his summoning is caused by a bureaucratic mistake committed in the Castle; a land surveyor is not required in the village now. K meets Frieda in the inn meant exclusively for the Castle’s bureaucrats though others are allowed to buy food from there. Frieda becomes K’s fiancée, leaving her job as a barmaid in the inn as well as her enviable position as the mistress of Klamm, the Chief of the Castle. Nobody in the village can enter the Castle though everybody’s life is controlled by the Castle. K wants to meet Klamm but never succeeds. Finally Frieda leaves him and goes back to her former job in the inn and also accepts one of the two assistants of K as her new man. The Castle towers above the village as a symbol of both spiritual and temporal powers. It
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