![]() ![]() is, in many ways, unlikable, and there’s no particular reason I or any reader should really be interested in his case…and yet we are. The book should be maddening, and in some ways it is, but it’s also incredibly compelling and keeps the reader dangling by a thread. Or even if they don’t understand the big picture, perhaps they’ll figure something out. The very premise of the book is that the court is unknowable-it’s in the summary and that’s no spoiler-but enough tidbits are dropped throughout the telling of the story that the reader can’t help but hope eventually they’re going to figure it out. The brilliance of the story is that there is always just enough information provided to keep the reader reading (and the protagonist to keep trying to figure out the basics of his case). It’s a chilling commentary on the opaqueness of the law and a character’s inability to understand it (even an intelligent, privileged character who finds himself with access to a lawyer and other comments), while being completely subjected to it. ![]() The Trial is a discomfiting, surreal story about a man, Josef K., who finds himself accused of an unspecified crime by a court he has never heard of where the authority of the court comes from and who is in charge is never explained, but their power seems absolute. ![]()
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