I do get the dystopian references and the satire that Kafka laid beneath it. I'm just not sure I'm fully able to appreciate this book. I really feel it loses something in the translation even the newest one. I wish I could read German. The story also feels unfinished and a little disjointed. As it s...
Quintissential Kafka, apparently prompted by an unexpected interrogation in a Berlin hotel room re his intentions re Felice, conducted by her and a couple of friends. Officials of a vague and unspecified court arrest K for an unspecified crime - but he never queries the charge. An endless stream of ...
The tortured bureaucratic world described in The Trial always strikes me as startlingly modern. I wonderedHow The Trial might have started if Kafka had been an academic writing in 2010K's latest conference paper had been rejected, and now he sat in front of his laptop and read through the referees' ...
Stark and depressing. As a teen, I had a hard time getting through this one, but I persevered and for some reason fell in love with Kafka. I think his sparse, stripped down style allows the young reader to focus on the immediate story without having to know much of the extraneous details of the larg...
If at all possible, don't live in a Kafka world. I don't know if teens are more prone to suicide these days, or just more likely to read depressing novels.
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