काफ्कांचे 'दि कासल' आणि जी एंचा मठ....K and S

Franz Kafka, The Castle:

"...But do you think your entire earlier life is so submerged (except of course for the landlady, who won’t let herself be forced down with it) that you no longer know how hard one must fight to get ahead, especially if one is coming up from the depths? How one must use everything that can somehow give one hope?..." 

या विषयावरती जमल तर जास्त लिहायची इच्छा आहे. ही पोस्ट फक्त सुरवात समजावी.

इंग्लिश विकिपीडिया 'दि कासल', १९२६ची ओळख अशी करून देतो:

" In it a protagonist known only as K. arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle. Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with K. dying in the village, the castle notifying him on his death bed that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances into account, he was permitted to live and work there". Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal."

 जी ए कुलकर्णींची कथा 'स्वामी', १९७३ वरकरणी ह्याच्या अगदी उलट आहे अस वाटेल कारण स्वामीला तर फसवून मठात ऐषोआरामात डांबल आहे. पण वास्तव तस नाहीये. 

स्वामीचा legal claim, K सारखा, to LEAVE the convent (मठ) is judged as not valid... 'स्वामी' कथा सुद्धा 'dark and at times surreal' आहे ....तसेच ' is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal.'

किंवा असही म्हणता येईल की जिथे  'दि कासल' संपते तिथे 'स्वामी' सुरु होते पण तरी काही बदलत नाही.... तेच alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal... सुरूच राहतात. 

ह्या सगळ्याला कदाचित एकच रुपेरी किनार आहे... माणसाचा झगडा आणि आशा

कलाकार : Tom Humberstone, The New Statesman