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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
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:
No
The Trial has beautiful prose but left me feeling dejected and gloomy. The bleakness is laid on thick, chronicling the frustrations of futility when applying logic to the reality of the world we have constructed. A society we have constructed in an attempt to create some semblance of order, but leaves us lacking purpose and worthwhile fulfillment.
The Trial will not provide you with answers, but I think it is worth a read.
The Trial will not provide you with answers, but I think it is worth a read.
This is surpringly dense considering the size of the novel, mostly due to the fact that the speech is never indented, so each page is a wall of text. Utterly depressing, unsettling and crazy, and in a weird way, quite funny. The ending is sudden, as (like most of his work) the novel is unfinished. The ending is there, but there was supposed to be more chapters before it, leading to the final chapter. Thankfully, Kafka wrote this final chapter so there's closure, however sudden.
The paramount story of frustration and futility (although I think I was probably more frustrated than poor K.).
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:
Complicated
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
A thorough indictment of legal bureaucracy run amok, and the inaccessibility of the courts to the average person, through the weird twilight-zone lens of Kafka.
Surreal; gives much meaning to the overused phrase "Kafkaesque". Lots of symbolism in there, also a clear depiction of someone with extreme social phobia or AvPD or something- cool
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
I don't like Kafka and that's okay