Das Schloss: Roman

Von Franz Kafka

In einer Winternacht gelangt der Landvermesser K. in ein Dorf, das von den Beamten eines mysteriösen Schlosses oberhalb der Stadt beherrscht wird. Die Dorfbewohner begegnen K. mit Misstrauen. Rätselhafte und widersprüchliche Auskünfte behindern K.s Bemühen, einen Weg zum Schloss zu finden. K. behauptet, er sei von den Schlossbeamten als Landvermesser ins Dorf bestellt worden. Vergeblich versucht K. in den folgenden sieben Tagen, ins Schloss vorzudringen. Er kommt nicht voran. Alle Versuche K.s führen ihn im Kreis zum Ausgangspunkt zurück. Tage und Nächte scheinen immer schneller zu verlaufen. K.s Kräfte schwinden.

Franz Kafka lässt für seinen letzten Roman "Das Schloss" von 1922 breiten Interpretationsspielraum. "Das Schloss" provozierte eine Vielzahl psychologischer, soziologischer und theologischer Deutungsversuche. Die unerreichbare Machtinstanz auf dem Schlossberg wurde als manipulativer Staat, Gottheit, Symbol des Lebenssinns und vieles mehr ausgelegt. Gerade, indem Franz Kafka in "Das Schloss" keinen eindeutigen Sinngehalt anbot, legte er den Grundstein für die andauernde Faszination des Romans weit über die Grenzen der Literatur hinaus.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: epubli
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30. Juni 2018
• ISBN: 9783746738826

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka, geboren am 3. Juli 1883 in Prag, war ein bedeutender deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er entstammte einer jüdischen Familie und wuchs in einer bürgerlichen Umgebung auf. Kafka studierte Jura an der Deutschen Universität in Prag und arbeitete später als Versicherungsangestellter, was ihn jedoch nicht erfüllte. Kafka begann früh mit dem Schreiben von literarischen Werken, die oft von seinen persönlichen Ängsten, Isolationserfahrungen und existenziellen Fragen geprägt waren. Sein Stil war geprägt von einer präzisen Sprache, einem tiefgründigen Sinn für Absurdität und einer düsteren Atmosphäre. Im Jahr 1912 veröffentlichte Kafka seine erste Erzählung Das Urteil, gefolgt von weiteren Werken wie Die Verwandlung, Der Prozess und Das Schloss. Diese Werke sind bekannt für ihre kafkaeske Atmosphäre, in der die Protagonisten oft von undurchsichtigen bürokratischen Strukturen oder unerklärlichen Gesetzen gefangen sind. Kafka litt zeitlebens unter gesundheitlichen Problemen und psychischen Belastungen, die sich auch in seinem Werk widerspiegeln. Er führte ein zurückgezogenes Leben und hatte Schwierigkeiten, seine Werke zu veröffentlichen und anzuerkennen zu lassen. Das Jahr 2024 markiert das sogenannte Kafkajahr, 100 Jahre nach seinem Tod im Jahr 1924. In diesem Jahr werden weltweit Veranstaltungen, Ausstellungen und Aufführungen stattfinden, um das Leben und Werk dieses einflussreichen Schriftstellers zu würdigen. Franz Kafka starb in Kierling bei Wien an Tuberkulose. Obwohl er zu Lebzeiten nur wenig Anerkennung erfuhr, gilt er heute als einer der bedeutendsten Autoren der Moderne und sein Werk hat einen nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Literaturgeschichte. Kafkas einzigartiger Stil und seine tiefgründigen Themen machen ihn zu einem zeitlosen Klassiker der Weltliteratur.

Rezensionen für Das Schloss

[nog_5 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

I would like to see where Kafka would have taken this unfinished novel which stops in mid-sentence. His protagonist K. seems so unreflective and tossed about by those around him. Chock full of that patented dark Kafka humor, it lurches from one slightly nightmarish episode to another, and the translation seems to catch the dreamlike prose that this novel is known for. A bit frustrating to read, for Kafka seems to dispense with paragraphs for many pages at a time. It really slowed me down.

[jonfaith · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Only a total stranger could ask such a question. Are there control agencies? There are only control agencies. Of course they aren’t meant to find errors, in the vulgar sense of that term, since no errors occur, and even if an error does occur, as in your case, who can finally say that it is an error.

We were all once younger. I don't know if we have all been haunted.

[cathyvil · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This book is like reading a dream. I'm not sure whose dream it is though. The Castle is the story of K who was summoned to a village as Land-Surveyor and his trials and tribulations trying to work through the bureaucracy of the castle's politics. Void of any consistent punctuation (paragraphs go on for pages) I found both K and the villagers to be nonsensical and irrational. This must be the most contrary town ever written about. The situations are inane, but Kafka's style is still engaging where I wanted to find out what crazy direction the story would take next. Had Kafka ever finished this work so it wasn't such a burden to read, it definitely would have earned itself more stars.

[missizicks · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This was weird, but not as weird, or as difficult, as I was expecting. The narrative flows reasonably well. There are passages that go on interminably, but there's enough action to make them bearable. It felt like reading someone else's crazy dream, with the contradictions and strange passage of time. Poor K. Accepted into the village for all the wrong reasons. I see where The Prisoner TV show got its ideas from now!

[soylentgreen23 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I'd never read anything like Kafka when I found "The Castle" down at my local library. I was still quite young then, and perhaps wasn't prepared for what lay in store for me; it took me a while to make my way through the book, and when I had finished I wasn't sure how to make sense of it all. I'm still not sure, but I do know that, as a piece of fiction, "The Castle" is very impressive.As a side-note, it's with some sadness that I saw my library redeveloped a few years back. It wasn't a real redevelopment - now they have computers and such - but what changed about five years was the removal of one little carousel, stuck at the end of an aisle where it didn't really belong, that was crowded with foreign books. I discovered Kafka there, and Lem too; how I wish I could make more discoveries like those so innocently, and without such precipitous expectations!

[rhysickle · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

I love the trial, and many of Kafka's short stories but the castle lacks something somehow. Maybe it's the way the oppressive, intense rush of a confusing modern world that Kafka captures so well elsewhere can hardly hope to be translated into the medievalesque setting of this novel. It comes across as rather twee and annoying.

[helenliz_1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

 There was a news article today suggesting that two thirds of people questioned lie about the books they have read to appear more sophisticated, so how do you know I'm telling the truth...



This was somewhat strange. It's never quite clear what is true and what isn't. Everything is open to interpretation. The main character is an incommer, who views the situation in the village very differently from the locals. There are many rules and customs that make the villagers seem brainwashed in comparison to the incommer. The presence of the castle - the seat of power - is always mysterious and threatening, even sinister.

[cla83 · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

Absolutely incomprehensible!

[booklove2 · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

This survived all three editions so far of '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'? I don't think it should have. 'The Trial' made my list of favorites the year I read that, so it can't be because I don't like Kafka. A lot of the same elements were in both books, but I guess The Trial was just more polished. The Castle is really an unfinished book, so you have to wonder how much Kafka may have changed it if he could have. And this is one of the books Kafka never wanted to publish. If The Castle was the first Kafka book I read, I don't think I would have tried any others. While reading this, I was jokingly thinking maybe "Kafkaesque" means a nightmarish book that never ends, takes way too long to read and seems pretty pointless, but then the book ends in the middle of a sentence, almost like waking up in the middle of a nightmare. I'd say try The Trial.

[ragwaine · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

No conclusion. Everyone was extremely analytical.

[heidilove_1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

a novel of the futility of trying. go ahead. read it. i dare you.

[bookomaniac-1 · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Nog bevreemdender dan Het Proces, maar prachtige scènes. Andermaal het individu tegenover de onzichtbare almacht, maar minstens evenzeer over hoe de perceptie van mensen doorslaggevend is. Tegelijk een soort Bildungsroman : als K. aankomt is hij een onbeschreven blad, maar hij probeert hardnekkig dat blad ingevuld te krijgen.Eerste keer gelezen toen ik 17 was.

[jakebornheimer · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

A frustrating reading experience. Finished 3 chapters and thought i'd better leave it alone for now. Will eventually revisit, but for now it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

[kawgirl · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

I've read the chapters in different orders and the story had meaning every time. Fascinating and twisted, but that is Kafka for you.

[pineapplejuggler · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Being very dry and long-winded while being an unfinished book, The Castle was very hard to get through for me. Although it was only 280 pages, it would be much more if it had been edited using standard practices. As this is the first book by Kafka I have read, I am not sure if it his style, or because he didn't finish the book, but paragraph breaks were few and far between, even when there was a change in dialogue speaker.I did enjoy and find rather relatable Kafka's themes of the absurdity of a nontransparent, yet subtly out-of-control bureaucracy; the absurdity of the the status quo; and how people can have such different, yet thoroughly thought-out perspectives, possibly stemming from deeply ingrained biases.

[garrison0550 · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

I'm getting off the Kafka train at the next stop.

[.monkey.-1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Kafka is interesting, that's for sure. But his style does not work well for me, I find it a chore to read even though I'm intrigued by it.

[ireed110 · Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen]

"I want to go to the castle!" "You can't get there from here.""But I need to go the castle!""You can't get there from here."I hated this book.

[atomheart_1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

Kafka's writing style is very challenging at points, droning on with long, highly punctuated sentences, and even longer paragraphs... sometimes spanning 10 pages. Somehow... its utterly annoying and totally engaging at the same time, very bizarre.Overall, it's a pity the book was unfinished, cause I was finally starting to get into it. For those who don't know, the book literally ends in mid-sentence.The main character K. speaks for Kafka's obvious hatred for bureaucracy and authority. Toward the end of the book, (who knows where that really is in relation to the story it intended to be) you start learning some interesting facts (purely opinions, because there are no facts in his world) that really shape the book and could change the way you look at the story, but unfortunately it was never expounded on... so one never knows where Kafka could had gone with this.

[haidji-1 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

This book can be read as an introduction to dystopian literature.Joseph K. (the protagonist) arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. K. believes that he's been invited to a town to do some land surveying, and realises upon his arrival that his invitation was maybe the result of a bureaucratic mishap. K. wants answers from the officials at the castle that overlooks the town.This book is about bureaucracy, meaning, connection, relationships, and how hierarchy impacts the way we experience and live in this world.It may be an unfinished work, but it is an amazing book that can test your conception of the real purpose in your life.

[robertmorrow_1 · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

A frustrating, irritating book that accurately describes the impersonality of the bureaucracy.

[davidcldriedger · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

The Castle always has the advantage . . .