“The Trial” Franz Kafka (1914) Review | Absurdity, humiliation

★★★★☆ Absurdity, humiliation, resistance, Kafka’s world. We get little explanation throughout. Death is unceremonial, his death is nothing but a humiliation.

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The Trial
Franz Kafka, 1914
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Absurdity, humiliation, resistance, Kafka's world.

I only read Metamorphosis when I was a student, but I do remember it's the same absurdity.
Out of blue he's arrested, out of blue he's turned into an insect.
He suffers from the humiliation and irrational world around him.

The protagonist is a serious man, he struggles to accept illogical thinking, but we don't get to know where the court would be, or even why he was arrested, we get little explanation throughout.
Death is unceremonial, his death is nothing but a humiliation.

 

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