The Office Series, Day Four: After Kafka
Nazis in the workplace, what Kafka's writings presaged
| 12:11 PM Dec 4, 2008
Throughout the 1960s, when Kafka’s work was circulating in Czech in samizdat editions, Prague’s dissident writers would call the Prague castle, throne of the immemorial Czech kings, Das Schloß—”The Castle”—in reference to the circuitous delays, follies, and bureaucratic oppressions, of the communist period. While The Trial found its ending in officework, The Castle began in ...
