Why do you guys like this book so much?

People just project their own kafkaesque experiences onto the book

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>>7875827

This is a very kafkaesque post

it's about how the very things you need to understand some shit is inaccessible to you. the system is designed to make you doubt yourself so you think it's your fault and not the bullshit system.

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>>7876027
LMAO OH MY GOD

>>7876036

Are you okay there kiddo?

>>7876069
HOW THE FUCK DO I UPVOTE THOSE POSTS

>>7875826
The question you ask; is K guilty? If so what of?

>>7876160
He's fucking guilty. The guy is head financial officer at a fucking bank. He borderline rapes women. It's not a question of his guilt. The issue at hand is rather the system he must adhere to

>>7875826

I prefer The Castle actually, I do like The Trial but it's almost too bleak for me.

>>7876214
>The guy is head financial officer at a fucking bank.
What on earth does this have to do with guilt?

Why does everyone have a name now? Are we bring #raided

Also OP, I liked it because 1. It was funny and 2. Because of all the great passages in it. (Entirety of the chapter with the cathedral, when K is in court, him wandering through the offices, the entire last chapter, when he goes to the lawyer)

>>7876214
you never know whether he's guilty or not...nor even what he would be guilty of.

>>7876218
the castle is similar themes but instead of not gaining the info needed to determine guilt it's entrance to a castle.

the castle is def funnier imo

>>7876250
>Why does everyone have a name now? Are we bring #raided

fuck off, Allison. I just looked up your facebook. you're not bad looking desu

"I personally love the book. He's my favorite writer." said I

>>7876345
>the castle is similar themes but instead of not gaining the info needed to determine guilt it's entrance to a castle.

The castle is all about strict, static, and orderly custom. In the castle, the protagonist adapts.

The trial is all about an illogical, unpredictable, and obfuscated court. In the trial, the protagonist refuses to adapt.

>>7876223
Notice how his supervisor collects documents from his office under the guise of "needing a single contract"

Yet, his Vice President leaves with a pile of papers and K notes that the pile is clearly too big. K. Is obviously being audited or something of the sort.

Furthermore, K. ONLY stresses his innocence if he is prompted. And even then, with hesitation

I fucking love all of Kafka's major novels, but probably The Trial the best

he writes such universal nightmare worlds, Kafka is a writer of anxieties and protagonists who know nothing more than to never show these anxieties. I find his books equal parts hilarious, frightening, and deeply mysterious in a way that Kafka seems only to be probing the depths of human existence, with no answers himself

the initial draw for me when i first read the trial was the humor. the absurd situations and lawyerlike attitude of josef k

>>7876223
>>7876214

I always read it in the sense that everyone is guilty, it is only a matter of who the courts choose to persecute

the trial to me is about interpersonal relations, slander, betrayal, everyone has something they're guilty of, it matters only who is brought to light

>>7876743
Agreed

it's mostly a boring book to read (and incomplete) that aged badly desu but it has it's high points and it's a very important book for artistic/literary perspective

it's not the kind of book to read just for entertainment

>>7875826
It's less about a plot and more about how it makes you feel. Deeply uncomfortable.