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"The Castle" is one of Franz Kafka's most famous works and one of the most profound philosophical novels of the 20th century. It was unfinished by the writer and was first published after his death in 1926 by his friend Max Brod. The plot of "The Castle" is absurd, but at the same time plausible: a land surveyor K. comes to a certain Village and tries to get into the Castle, where he is not allowed. A complex system of bureaucracy gets tangled up in a ball, which is impossible to unravel, which means that there is no way to get into the Castle, no matter how roundabout you go. But the satire on the bureaucratic system is only one of the subtexts of the novel.

The entire artistic space is limited by the Village and the inaccessible Castle. Time flows irrationally here. "The Castle" is first and foremost a metaphor through which signs of reality can be seen. The Castle is quite concrete, and at the same time it is a mirage. Perhaps the road to it is the road to God, and the Village is merely a prototype of our earthly world?