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A review by n8hanson
The Trial by Franz Kafka
2.0
A novelized nightmare of bureaucracy - impersonal, impenetrable, inhuman, and utterly irrational. The historical context of this book, written by a German Jew in 1914, made it all the more chilling - foretelling the banality of evil and the mass resigned subservience that perpetuates it.
I felt the protagonist's frustration and insomnia as he numbly fumbled through the story in a near fugue of passivity. But the tedium and repetition wore me down: The Trial was much more interesting to think and read about than to enjoy reading the thing itself.
I felt the protagonist's frustration and insomnia as he numbly fumbled through the story in a near fugue of passivity. But the tedium and repetition wore me down: The Trial was much more interesting to think and read about than to enjoy reading the thing itself.