Behind Kafk's work is the landscape of his native Prague and an austro-Hungarian empire in decline. It should be remembered that Kafka was not only a writer, he was also an official, and this explains his acute perception of the economic and bureaucratic realities of his time. The process and the castle are a satire to the bureaucratic procedures of the decadent elites; the bureaucratic and dehumanized jargon of both works is a critique of an excessively rigid system and opens to imagination

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