Power in The Trial is diffuse, invisible, and deeply unsettling—it does not punish openly but consumes through confusion and silence. Franz Kafka exposes a system so vast and irrational that no explanation is ever given, no resolution ever offered. Josef K.’s slow unraveling shows that the most terrifying kind of power is the kind that strips... See more
litthroughlensinstagram.comwe pondered the trials and tribulations of being a writer in Iran, having so much to say but not being allowed to say it.
Azar Nafisi • Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
So much of his psychic bandwidth was taken up with conflicting thoughts about political prepositions. The morality of almond milk. The ethics of yoga. The politics of sonnets. There was nothing in his life that wasn’t contaminated by what he mostly mindlessly called “late capitalism.” He hated it, like everyone was supposed to. But it was a hate
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