The story of K. continues in The Castle and links this novel with The Trial and Amerika, Kafka's earliest, fragmentary long prose work. The sense of alienation which characterizes K.'s adventures in the castle also characterize his experiences in the labyrinth of the law courts of The Trial.

And with the exception of the unfinished and much more lighthearted, Amerika, Kafka's prose remains here as dense and baffling as in his other writings.