I blundered. I suspect I wouldn't have been in love with this anyway, but I can't blame my feelings exclusively on 'The Trial'. I blame technology.Instead of sticking with the physical copy I own - the 'definitive edition' translated by Willa and Edwin Muir that includes unfinished chapters and reda...
"Like a dog." Excuse me while I have a week or two trying to come up with something to say about this beyond long winded, nightmarish, horrifically brilliant.
Kafka's works all read like parables, but what if anything they are parables of is obscure. The typical Kafka tropes are here. The dreamlike matter-of-factness of the surreal, the arcane bureaucracy, the continual circling of a goal that never comes any closer and whose purpose is obscure. There...
The only trial was in reading this. Considering the author begged his friend to heat a room with the original manuscript should tell you something. Gives new meaning to the word tedious.
Before you read my old initial review here's a summary that has been distilled over time in my mind: Franz Kafka was a true genius. What is this sign of genius? When you can write a classic novel that wasn't even properly completed. I read The Trial to give myself a better perspective on Kafka's wri...
definitely worth a read. Kafka's writing is amazing. Metamorphosis is a story where one day a man wakes and noticed he was transforming into a bug. Other stories that I enjoyedThe Judgment, The Sudden Walk, Absent-minded Window-gazing. Overall all stories are enjoyable read.
"Trial" is a word which is a cornucopia of meaning: (a) examination of evidence and applicable law by a tribunal, i.e. a 'court trial,' (b) the act or process of testing, trying, or putting to proof, (c) an instance of such testing, (d) an effort or attempt, (e) a state of pain or anguish that tests...
Reading this book felt like being an observer to someone's bizarre dream, or rather nightmare. Josef K wakes up one day to find that he is under arrest for an unspecified crime. He is allowed to stay at home while he awaits his trial. What follows is a surreal story that follows Josef through the...
I've renewed this from the library a couple of times and still haven't finished it (I got to "In the Penal Colony") so I guess I'll return it and come back to it later. This is definitely a book that would be better to buy than check out, just so you're not rushed and can have time to digest each st...
An amazing collection of shorter works by Kafka. For my money, “In the Penal Colony” is the entry that will, likely, prove the most memorable—perhaps, it’s due to my recently reading Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great or it might be owing to my being midway in Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, but I...
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