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The castle kafka5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Kafka died before he could finish the novel, and it is questionable whether he intended to finish it if he had survived his tuberculosis. Hence, the significance that the first few chapters of the handwritten manuscript were written in the first person and at some point later changed by Kafka to a third-person narrator, "K." Max Brod A picture taken of him upon his arrival shows him by a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow in a setting reminiscent of The Castle. ![]() Kafka began writing the novel on the evening of 27 January 1922, the day he arrived at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle (now in the Czech Republic). Franz Kafka (far right) arriving in Spindlermühle in 1922 ![]()
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