The protagonist of this novel survives a terrible night, during which a cat runs over his lover's face, and at the end of which a schoolmistress punishes him for oversleeping by destroying his coffee-pot. The protagonist of this novel lies down in a warm sleigh, which he leaves only after a man orders that the horses drawing it be unharnessed. A woman in this novel becomes a social pariah after tearing up a letter sent to her by the creep Sortini. Because the protagonist of this novel cannot tell his assistants (*) Jeremiah and Arthur apart, he calls them both Arthur. This novel abruptly ends on the phrase "She spoke with difficulty, it was hard to understand her, but she said," an oddity preserved by Max Brod when he revised this novel to continue past the point where the barmaid Frieda leaves the protagonist. In this novel, the protagon
The protagonist of this novel survives a terrible night, during which a cat runs over his lover's face, and at the end of which a schoolmistress punishes him for oversleeping by destroying his coffee-pot. The protagonist of this novel lies down in a warm sleigh, which he leaves only after a man orders that the horses drawing it be unharnessed. A woman in this novel becomes a social pariah after tearing up a letter sent to her by the creep Sortini. Because the protagonist of this novel cannot tell his assistants (*) Jeremiah and Arthur apart, he calls them both Arthur. This novel abruptly ends on the phrase "She spoke with difficulty, it was hard to understand her, but she said," an oddity preserved by Max Brod when he revised this novel to continue past the point where the barmaid Frieda leaves the protagonist. In this novel, the protagonist continually tries to reach Klamm, a high-ranking official in the bizarre bureaucracy of the title structure, which governs the village below. For 10 points, name this unfinished novel about the land-surveyor K., written by Franz Kafka.
The protagonist of this novel survives a terrible night, during which a cat runs over his lover's face, and at the end of which a schoolmistress punishes him for oversleeping by destroying his coffee-pot.
The Castle [or Das Schloss]