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Works of Franz Kafka: The Castle

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Kafka, Franz

Kafka, Franz
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Castle

General Comments:

Many interpretations of Kafka's novel, The Castle, have been offered in
the past, most of them stressing the symbolism which gives the work its unique
stamp. As we have pointed out before, however, a novel's literary worth cannot
be too great if the reader must necessarily approach it with sound knowledge
of Christian or Jewish theology or Freudian symbolism. A critic like Friedrich
Beissner has approached Kafka's works from a purely literary point of view,
concerning trating on such features as character delineation, language, ...

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