Mjesta otvorenosti i zatvorenosti: O romanu Dvorac
Places of openness and closeness: About the Castle novel

Summary/Abstract: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the study entitled „Kafka“, define the novels of this author as minor literature. The reason for this is that Kafka, with architecture of the space in his novels makes the meanings within them impossible to tighten and fix. The main characteristic of these novels is their rhizome structure. By the existence of some parallel universes within these novels, there is an endless slip and slipping of meanings. This work searches and reviews semantic levels of „The Castle“, trying to show all the possible interpretations as only those which are offered or imposed, not as the ultimate and only possible Truth. The main openness of this novel will be seen in its double ambiguity; material incompleteness and endless polyphony of struggle and confrontation of different interpretations of Kafka's novel. By reading the novel „Castle“ through the prism of Bakhtin's theory, important notions of Bakhtin's theoretical setting will be clarified. Applying them to the universe of the Kafka's „The Castle“ will reveal the places of openness and closure in the theory of the novel and in the novel itself.

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