The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest. . Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(novel)