Zámek - 2 CDmp3

The tragic collision of a man with bureaucratic machinery Read by Kamil Halbich Directed by Vlado Rusko In the intricate novelistic story of a land surveyor who came to a village dominated by a mysterious castle, into which he tries to penetrate at all costs to uncover its secrets, the author captured part of his personal life situation as well as the general human plight and depicted a state he himself characterized as "the borderland between solitude and community." All three novels by Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) remained unfinished: the novel Amerika (originally titled Nezvěstný, written 1912–1914) was published by Max Brod three years after Kafka's death in 1927. The novel Proces (written 1914–1915) was published in 1925. The novel Zámek was created in 1922, first published in 1926, and in Czech in 1935. Kafka began working on Zámek in January 1922 after a longer period of literary inactivity. The manuscript was created over seven months in Prague, Špindlerův Mlýn, and Planá nad Lužnicí during an extended health leave. Already in March 1922, Kafka read from the manuscript to his friend Max Brod, and by the turn of July and August, the text had approximately the form we know. However, it remained a fragment. Kafka wrote Zámek spontaneously, without preliminary plans or...