While all of Kafka’s works are interrelated, the following titles have a direct bearing on The Castle:
Kafka, Franz. The Complete Stories. Ed. Nahum N. Glatzer. New York, 1983.
——. The Diaries, 1910–1923. Ed. Max Brod. New York, 1988.
——. Letters to Milena. Trans. Philip Boehm. New York, 1990.
Brod, Max. Franz Kafka: A Biography. Trans. G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston. New York, 1960.
Citati, Pietro. Kafka. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. New York, 1990.
Karl, Frederick. Representative Man: Prague, Germans, Jews, and the Crisis of Modernism. New York, 1991.
Northey, Anthony. Kafka’s Relatives: Their Lives and His Writing. New Haven, Conn., 1991.
Pawel, Ernst. The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka. New York, 1985.
Wagenbach, Klaus. Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life. Trans. Arthur S. Wensinger. New York, 1984.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Franz Kafka’s “The Castle.” New York, 1988.
Cohn, Ruby. “Watt in the Light of The Castle.” Comparative Literature 13 (1961): 154–66. (On the literary relationship between Kafka and Beckett.)
Dowden, Stephen D. Kafka’s “Castle” and the Critical Imagination. Columbia, S.C., 1995.
Gray, Ronald. The Castle. Cambridge, 1956.
Harman, Mark. “ ‘Digging the Pit of Babel’: Retranslating Franz Kafka’s Castle.” New Literary History 27 (1996): 291–311.
——. “Approaching K.’s Castle.” Sewanee Review 105, no. 4 (Winter, 1997):513–23.
Neumeyer, Peter F., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of “The Castle.” Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1969.
Robert, Marthe. The Old and the New: From Don Quixote to Kafka. Trans. Carol Cosman. Berkeley, 1977.
Sebald, W. G. “The Law of Ignominy: Authority, Messianism, and Exile in The Castle.” In On Kafka: Semi-Centenary Perspectives, ed. Franz Kuna. New York, 1976.
Sheppard, Richard. On Kafka’s “Castle.” London and New York, 1973.
Adorno, Theodor. “Notes on Franz Kafka.” In Prisms, trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. London, 1967.
Alter, Robert. Necessary Angels: Kafka, Benjamin, Scholem. Cambridge, Mass., 1990.
Anderson, Mark, ed. Reading Kafka. New York, 1989.
——. Kafka’s Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg “Fin de Siècle.” Oxford, 1992.
Arendt, Hannah. “Franz Kafka: A Revaluation.” Partisan Review 11 (1944): 412–22. Reprinted in Essays in Understanding, 1930–1945, ed. Jerome Kohn. New York, 1994.
Beck, Evelyn Torton. Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work. Madison, Wis., 1971.
Benjamin, Walter. “Franz Kafka on the Tenth Anniversary of His Death.” In Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt. New York, 1969.
Bernheimer, Charles. Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure. New Haven, Conn., 1996.
Boa, Elizabeth. Kafka: Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions. Oxford, 1996.
Canetti, Elias. Kafka’s Other Trial. Trans. Christopher Middleton. New York, 1974.
Corngold, Stanley. Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form. Ithaca, N.Y., 1988.
Crick, Joyce. “Kafka and the Muirs.” In The World of Franz Kafka, ed. J. P. Stern. New York, 1980.
Deleuze, Giles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Trans. Dana Polan. Minneapolis, 1986.
Gilman, Sander. Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient. New York, 1995.
Grözinger, Karl Erich. Kafka and Kabbalah. Trans. Susan H. Ray. New York, 1994.
Harman, Mark. “Irony, Ambivalence, and Belief in Kleist and Kafka.” Journal of the Kafka Society 1/2 (1984): 3–13.
——. “Biography and Autobiography: Necessary Antagonists?” Journal of the Kafka Society 1/2 (1986): 56–62.
——. “Life into Art: Kafka’s Self-Stylization in the Diaries.” In Franz Kafka (1883–1983): His Craft and Thought, ed. Roman Struc and J. C. Yardley, 101–16. Calgary, Alberta, 1986.
——. “Joyce and Kafka.” Sewanee Review 101, no. 1 (1993): 66–84.
Kundera, Milan. Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts. Trans. Linda Asher. New York, 1995.
Politzer, Heinz. Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox. Ithaca, N.Y., 1966.
Robert, Marthe. As Lonely as Franz Kafka. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York, 1982.
Robertson, Ritchie. Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature. Oxford, 1985.
Rolleston, James. Kafka’s Narrative Theater. University Park, Pa., 1974.
Sokel, Walter H. Franz Kafka: Tragik und Ironie. Munich and Vienna, 1964.
——. Franz Kafka. New York, 1966.
Mairowitz, David Zane, and Robert Crumb. Introducing Kafka. Cambridge, 1993.
The Castle. Adapted by Max Brod. Trans. James Clark. London, 1963.
Nears, Colin. The Castle. London (BBC), 1974.
Noelte, Rudolf. Das Schloβ. Germany, 1968.
Reimann, Aribert. Das Schloβ. Berlin, 1992.