This essay seeks to clarify and substantiate the following statements: 1. Das Schloß reflects the causes leading to divisions among people. 2. Das Schloß cultivates attitudes essential for the awareness of unity (above all, attention and empathy towards those who suffer). In the novel itself, the key role with respect to both of these statements is played by the following — linguistically and factually interconnected — motifs: The concealment of the assumed centre of the ontological, religious, or social structure of Das Schloß (in the language of Kafka’s novel one may say ‘die Verschlossenheit des Schlosses’); the exclusion (‘Ausschließung’) of a family, whose member separated herself from an officially sanctioned connection with this centre; the concealment (‘Verschlossenheit’) of the spheres one would need to know in order to understand the story unequivocally; especially the concealment of the inner world of Kafka’s characters, not only those spatially distant (Westwest, Klamm, or Sortini), but also those spatially close (mainly Amalia). The aim of this essay is to clarify and substantiate the above-mentioned statements by an interpretation of the novel (primarily the Amalia-Sortini episode), while taking into account the analyses by other scholars, especially Ritchie Robertson.

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Schloß——一篇关于统一、排斥和隐瞒的论文

本文旨在澄清和证实以下陈述： 1. Das Schloß 反映了导致人与人之间分歧的原因。2. Das Schloß 培养对团结意识至关重要的态度（最重要的是，对受苦者的关注和同情）。在小说本身中，关于这两个陈述的关键作用是由以下在语言和事实上相互关联的主题所扮演的：Das Schloß 的本体论、宗教或社会结构的假定中心的隐藏（在语言中）卡夫卡的小说可能会说“die Verschlossenheit des Schlosses”）；排除（'Ausschließung'）一个家庭，该家庭的成员与该中心建立了官方认可的联系；为了明确地理解故事，人们需要知道的领域的隐藏（'Verschlossenheit'）；尤其是卡夫卡笔下人物内心世界的隐藏，不仅是那些空间上遥远的（西西部、克拉姆或索尔蒂尼），还有那些空间上接近的（主要是阿玛利亚）。本文的目的是通过对小说的解释（主要是 Amalia-Sortini 情节）来澄清和证实上述陈述，同时考虑到其他学者，尤其是 Ritchie Robertson 的分析。