A review by nincrony1
The Trial by Franz Kafka

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

My first slice of Kafka and whilst I found it very interesting and fairly stimulating, I think I like the concept better than the execution. Parts of this shine; like the early chapters with K learning about this strange world and beginning to understand the unnecessarily complicated laws and regulations that bind it. Haunting parts like stumbling across some offices being whipped or even the grim ending really stuck with me. But I felt some parts in execution were necessary (such as the long list of hypothetical results for K) but not always fun to read. Still; you have to respect and the stark prose (written in long blocks of paragraphs) really does subject you to the (ahem) Kafka-esque nightmare.