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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Trial was certainly... a trial. As a buddy read, we kept encountering ill luck while reading it. Either one of us would fall sick, or her ebook reader crashed, or my lungs suffered. I don't know what Kafka did while writing this but it felt very cursed.
Once again I am irked by the format of his novels, in which he seemed allergic to using paragraphs. Pages were filled with huge blocks of words with no spacings, which made it quite confusing to move through this story that is already confusing plot-wise.
Josef K was an unlikeable character (and not in a good way. Trust me. I often love books with terrible characters). He was (pardon my French) an ass. He was a menace to every woman he encountered (and boy, there were quite a few), to the men in the trial, to his maid and neighbours, and to his uncle. I could not pity this man at all and I wouldn't mind arresting him myself. He was a Scrooge in a Kafka way.
The book felt like if someone were to play with the volume dial. One second it's loud, and another it's quiet. My interest in the story went up and down. Some were interesting, some were so boring it was like reading white noise. We do not speak of Chapter 7. Whatever that was.
However I do applaud Kafka in his ability to write such a grimy book. I felt so suffocated and dirty, like I'm stuck beneath a centipede's belly. Stomach-dropping, headache-inducing, dread-filling book; that's what The Trial was for me.
Once again I am irked by the format of his novels, in which he seemed allergic to using paragraphs. Pages were filled with huge blocks of words with no spacings, which made it quite confusing to move through this story that is already confusing plot-wise.
Josef K was an unlikeable character (and not in a good way. Trust me. I often love books with terrible characters). He was (pardon my French) an ass. He was a menace to every woman he encountered (and boy, there were quite a few), to the men in the trial, to his maid and neighbours, and to his uncle. I could not pity this man at all and I wouldn't mind arresting him myself. He was a Scrooge in a Kafka way.
The book felt like if someone were to play with the volume dial. One second it's loud, and another it's quiet. My interest in the story went up and down. Some were interesting, some were so boring it was like reading white noise. We do not speak of Chapter 7. Whatever that was.
However I do applaud Kafka in his ability to write such a grimy book. I felt so suffocated and dirty, like I'm stuck beneath a centipede's belly. Stomach-dropping, headache-inducing, dread-filling book; that's what The Trial was for me.
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Un autor fundamental en la narrativa del siglo XX. El absurdo, la burocracia impostergable, la pesadilla que se funde con la realidad en escenarios oníricos, la deformidad de los roles y una suerte de mitología de lo moderno suponen parte de lo que contiene El proceso de Franz Kafka.
K. es acusado y puesto en un proceso del cual poco y nada sabe. Señalado, vaga por pasillos interminables, pronuncia preguntas sin respuestas y observa, con una tremenda lucidez, como el proceso le va transformando, hasta llegar a un final terrible, mortal y con resonancias míticas. Quizás uno de los mejores finales de la historia de la literatura.
Una continua búsqueda de respuestas lógicas que colisionan en un mundo donde la razón permite que las estructuras se posean a sí mismas. Un diagnóstico de lo humano puesto en extrañas circunstancias, en donde se intercalan situaciones, personajes y símbolos que conforman un todo oscuro, tenebroso y con ecos angustiantes.
Kafka nos entrega un libro fundamental para comprender parte de la historia de la literatura, a la vez que nos lega inteligentes representaciones de las formas que han adoptado las sociedades y los Estados, estos últimos complejos aparatos polimorfos según sean las características que se les otorguen. Una obra que aún no he leído con toda la profundidad que requiere y necesita.
K. es acusado y puesto en un proceso del cual poco y nada sabe. Señalado, vaga por pasillos interminables, pronuncia preguntas sin respuestas y observa, con una tremenda lucidez, como el proceso le va transformando, hasta llegar a un final terrible, mortal y con resonancias míticas. Quizás uno de los mejores finales de la historia de la literatura.
Una continua búsqueda de respuestas lógicas que colisionan en un mundo donde la razón permite que las estructuras se posean a sí mismas. Un diagnóstico de lo humano puesto en extrañas circunstancias, en donde se intercalan situaciones, personajes y símbolos que conforman un todo oscuro, tenebroso y con ecos angustiantes.
Kafka nos entrega un libro fundamental para comprender parte de la historia de la literatura, a la vez que nos lega inteligentes representaciones de las formas que han adoptado las sociedades y los Estados, estos últimos complejos aparatos polimorfos según sean las características que se les otorguen. Una obra que aún no he leído con toda la profundidad que requiere y necesita.
doncs... com dir-ho...
me engancho des de el minuto uno la vdd al principi pensava que no m'agradaria o que seria massa pesao explicant tot el procés judicial però q va
no se si era aposta però el K es INSOPORTEIVVVV l'odio molt i en cap moment he sentit ni una mica de compassió per ell. deus meus no eres el ombligo del mundo amorch
me engancho des de el minuto uno la vdd al principi pensava que no m'agradaria o que seria massa pesao explicant tot el procés judicial però q va
no se si era aposta però el K es INSOPORTEIVVVV l'odio molt i en cap moment he sentit ni una mica de compassió per ell. deus meus no eres el ombligo del mundo amorch
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault