A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle

Seth Rogoff is the author of five books, most recently The Kirschbaum Lectures.

“The Castle is an exploration of textual memory, an attempt to reconstruct not only what has been lost but also what may never have been, a quest for the ineffable, and a dazzling mystery. An homage to Kafka, but so much more than that, it bends and folds into non-Euclidean angles, a tour of the spectres of the twentieth century.” —C.D. Rose, author of Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

"An intertextual hall of mirrors, a palimpsestic fever dream, an exegetical garden of forking paths, Seth Rogoff’s The Castle doesn’t so much pick up where Kafka’s unfinished manuscript left off as spiral kaleidoscopically in the delirium of what Kafka’s work has unleashed. The overlapping geographies—fictional, historical, psychic, biblical—are constantly scrambled and reshuffled as if to reveal a secret alliance between cosmic disorientation and playful exuberance." —Ross Benjamin, translator of The Diaries of Franz Kafka