DAS SCHLOSS by Estefania Miranda

In Kafka’s unfinished novel, the withhold of a residence permit gets a ball rolling that unleashes an avalanche. The protagonist Mr. K. comes to a village which is under the cosh of a proliferating bureaucracy that has its origin in the castle high above the village. The inhabitants have totally come to terms with being bossed around, and the officials from the castle do behave in the most strange way. K. faces the contradictory emotion of being disconnected and utterly involved at the same time. More and more, he gets obsessed with the ambition to advance to the castle’s inner circuit. But the castle remains inaccessible to him. In its mysteriousness and in its parenthetically featured contradictions, Kafka has created a novel that is highly appropriate for an interpretation through dance and dance’s capacity to create spaces of inner imagery. The story itself could be taking place in the imagination of the protagonist Mr. K. Estefania Miranda shows an intense psychological profile of a split personality, wh