ABSTRACT
Kafka’s The Trial and The Castle were written at roughly the same time as Ulysses and The Magic Mountain. Did Kafka consciously turn to myth, like Joyce and Mann? To what point can myth account for Kafka’s unbridled expressionism? There are no clear answers. Critics have offered numerous interpretations of Kafka’s works-religious, al legorical or philosophical-starting with Martin Buber and Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and executor of his literary estate.
