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The castle kafka5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() In The Castle, a man named K arrives in a village to work as land surveyor. Wallace doesn’t exactly galmorize the IRS but he takes the original path of presenting it as a vital and necessary part of society rather than demonizing it. Wallace’s deathbed project was a long novel about Internal Revenue Service employees and the edited result is a meditation about the uses and purpose of taxation, bureaucracy and boredom. ![]() The Pale King and The Castle even share some themes. The work has long been beyond the control of its initial creator, much like David Foster Wallace’s incomplete and posthumously published The Pale King. It’s fitting, since it was a project Kafka had abandoned before his death that was heavily edited by Max Brod, who preserved Kafka’s literary legacy. Franz Kafka’s incomplete novel, The Castle just entered the public domain. ![]()
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