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The Trial

Franz Kafka

3.71 AVERAGE


"the whole matter has caused me nothing but some unpleasantness and passing annoyance, but might it not have had worse consequences?"
emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated

Don't just accept your fate 
challenging dark slow-paced
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

No es el libro soy yo . por mas que intente y me interesaba saber mas nunca termine entender. a veces me sientia en un viaja alucinante. Y solo puedo decir que la manente del protagonista es un labetinto.

“You don’t have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary”

I really wanted this book to be one of my all time favorites - and it probably would’ve been (I think Kafka is making some wonderful critiques here, well-informed by his time as a lawyer) except I could not STAND the way that K. engaged with women. Every woman in the plot is unnecessarily sexualized or portrayed in a belittling way (e.g. the girls outside the artist’s apartment). Maybe there’s a point that I’m not getting, but I felt like latent misogyny held me back from really enjoying this book :(
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

In einem Wort: Faszinierend.