Duration: 13 hours, 24 min. Read by Viktor Rudnichenko."The Castle" is a philosophical novel by Franz Kafka and a cult hit. In it a protagonist, known only as K., strives to gain access to the mysterious authorities of a castle that governs the village where K. has arrived to work as a land surveyor. Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is about alienation, bureaucracy, and the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to stand against the system.