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The Castle, by Franz Kafka, is a dystopian novel that contains elements of bureaucracy and alienation. Summary of the Book The Castle is a philosophical fiction. It is about the struggle of a man called K., to gain access to the furtive authorities of a castle who regulate a village for reasons that are unknown. But he is never allowed to enter the castle. He is not accepted in the village, and cannot even go back home. The novel explores the strange truths of existentialism that Kafka has set a benchmark for. It talks about the subtleties of a perpetual human condition called duality, the dichotomy of emotions like fear and hope, of chaos and harmony, of uncertainty and certainty, and of babble and reason. Although Kafka passed away before finishing the novel, he had recommended that it would end with K. dying in the village. About Franz Kafka Franz Kafka was a writer who wrote in German. He has written many short stories and novels that have made him one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, especially on existentialism. Most of his works contain themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent-child conflict, characters on relentless quests, bureaucracy, and mystical transformations. Some of his most famous works are Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and The Trial.