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The Castle Summary & Study Guide Description
The Castle Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on The Castle by Franz Kafka.
The Castle Plot Summary
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K., a land surveyor, arrives late at night in an anonymous town which sits at the foot of a large castle. After some confusion about his identity and whether he has permission to be there, K. is able to get some sleep. K. tries to go up to the Castle himself but finds the thick snow too tiring. He stops for awhile in the house of a master tanner named Lasseman, but the inhabitants are only too eager to get rid of him. He returns to his inn and meets his two, identical assistants, Artur and Jeremias, whom he decides to refer to simply as "Artur". A young boy named Barnabas comes to the Inn with message for K. It is a letter from Klamm, a Castle official and K.'s director, which tells him to report to the village chairman. Thinking that Barnabas...
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