The Trial, Kafka
Inspo for a review of the Trial by Kafka
The Trial, Kafka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctVwh6RhyLY
The end of the video reminds us that the trial is not only about bureaucracy but about the absurd nature of the entire world we live in. When we go around our lives, injustice, pain, joy, and many aspects of our lives happen without a reason and follow a series of nonsensical laws that we often refer to as
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youtube.comEasy and simple video about Kafka, the Trial, and the themes he discusses including the absurd, how bureaucracy becomes tyrany without a tyrant, surrealism, the system’s control over the individual, etc
This reminds me of foucault’s analysis of the politics of waiting and how bureaucracy oppresses people by forcing them to wait and giving them hope in a system that puts more and more caveats and slows down their process
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I’m not gonna lie, this was a tough read. Not because the text was difficult… but because it is maddening.
You spend the entire novel trying to decipher what’s up and what’s down. Because our protagonist has no clue... See more
instagram.comNice video summarising and giving you an idea of the emotional feel that reading that Kafka gives you
The courts of the trial do not make any sense, chapter after chapter we discover new procedures and laws that contradict each other but still oppress and alienate people
An analogy of the Absurd in The Trial: “It's like being caught in a maze with walls that move unpredictably—you can either panic and get lost or slowly learn to navigate it and find your own path.”
Summary of Kafka’s life, works, and themes
The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”
Franz Kafka • The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)
The court and the whole system is impersonal; it does not care about who you are or what you do, it will come for you anyways
