“The Castle” is one of the iconic books of the twentieth century, captivating us with its strange interweaving of reality and fiction. The novel’s plot is simple and at the same time extraordinarily complex, parable-like, and symbolically many-layered. This work can be interpreted both as a brilliant satire of bureaucratic society and as an absurdist treatise, and even as a religious parable. But all these interpretations are meaningless until a person immerses themselves in Kafka’s “surreal” world.