Dario Porras Garcia
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Dario Porras Garcia
@costa
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
... See moreNice video summarising and giving you an idea of the emotional feel that reading that Kafka gives you
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.”
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
The court wants nothing from you. It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”
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
Easy 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
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
Summary of Kafka’s life, works, and themes