El Castillo

Descripción

Kafka structures the novel around K.’s attempts to gain access to the Castle and validate his role, yet every effort generates new obstacles rather than progress. Bureaucrats speak in riddles, messengers contradict one another, and official procedures stretch into absurd rituals. The village operates as an extension of the Castle’s authority, and even private relationships become entangled in administrative logic, erasing any clear boundary between personal life and institutional power.

As the narrative advances, K.’s persistence sharpens the novel’s tension rather than resolving it. Each apparent breakthrough collapses into further ambiguity, revealing a system that sustains itself through delay and miscommunication. The Castle never needs to act directly; its dominance flows through rumor, paperwork, and social pressure. Kafka drives the story forward not through plot resolution, but through the accumulation of frustration, exposing how authority maintains power by remaining unreachable.