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| AUTHOR: | Franz Kafka |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Schocken |
| ISBN: | 0805209999 |
| TYPE: | Literary, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Fiction, Literature: Classics, Fiction / Literary, Modern fiction, Classics |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of The Trial
oh so influential Kafka's writing is like taking a trip into the most terrifying nightmare you have ever experienced.. He was so concious of the guilt that dominated the personality of modern man.. There is always someone watching always someone observing your every move - and to take it further there is a man watching that man who is watching you and so on infinitely.. This trial of man kind is the symptom of a successful marketing economy and its greatest disease to the nature of humanity.. <
>K is a man who does not know what he did wrong or who accusses him - it appears that the beaurocratic chain is stretched so far that there is no direct access to the facts.. (think of Kafka's own occupation - and it becomes evident why his writing focuses so much on beaurocracy).. But, like 'the stranger' by albert camus, 'the trial' seems to address the spiritual sickness of modern man.. To think of Kafka as a spiritual writer seems almost preposterous - but I am not talking of the ordinary judeao-christian meaning of the word.. Kafka's world is a world where no man knows himself let alone his neighbor.. He can't see the tree for all of its leaves - he is blind and inept.. <
>'the trial' hits like a ton of bricks and is a modern classic.. Another book you should read if you like 'the triral' is 'the castle' which I believe is even more dream-like.
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The opening sentence is the only thing I found interesting about this Novel. After the second chapter I get sick of the Qestions followed by almost next to no answers. I will try this book again when I am 30.
Harrowing Portrait of Insane Man
The Trial tells the story of a half balding post office clerk who questions his own existence after having lost an eye in a terrible tram accident. Terrifying, for its vivid portrayl of office clerks in Vienna in 1908, this story follows the realist tradition of many great writers. Fred, who is a middle aged man with dementia and an unknown skin disease, imagines a life away from the crumbling empire, which is about to enter World War 1 but he can not get away from the post office because of his stamp licking addiction. Great scene includes when he smashes a portrait of the king on the floor, realizing it was actually a painting by Renoir and when he imitates a squirrel in the park.
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