The Castle: Franz Kafka

`He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him` Vladimir Nabokov

The story of K. and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it. K.`s isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epitomises Kafka`s vision of twentieth-century alienation and anxiety.