Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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In October, author Seth Rogoff joined the LBI Book Club to discuss his book The Castle.

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

Seth Rogoff's masterful and mesmerizing novel, The Castle, draws inspiration from the enigmatic and incomplete final sentence of Franz Kafka's influential work of the same title. Follow renowned translator Sy Kirschbaum as he finds his way into the deserted landscape of Kafka’s world where the village of Z. lies eerily silent. The inhabitants vanished like phantoms leaving only remnants of their lives.