The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) - Franz Kafka

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7.5	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Penguin Classics
Release date : 25 January 2007
ISBN-10 : 0141182903 | ISBN-13 : 9780141182902

Philosophy (2), Existentialism (2), Czech (2), Irony (1), Hopeless (1), Fiction (x) (1), Comments On Life (1), 1925 (1), Made Into A Film (1), Mystery (x) (1), 1001 Books TBR (1), Subtle (1), Surreal (x) (1), Dark (1), 'Kafkaesque' (x) (1), Novel (x) (1), Comic (x) (1), Classic (1), Fantasy (x) (1), Fiction (1)

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Franz Kafka

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A weird tale that makes sense

Posted : 1 year, 11 months ago at Dec 25 20:06

I don't know why I got so interested by Kafka after reading "The Trial". I've read "In the penal colony" once - a long time ago -, a very small tale by him and I liked it, but by that time it was only another good reading for me. I did not saw it as something to “investigate”... but when I read "The Trial" things were a lot different. Maybe it's because it's so WEIRD and I like weird books (and movies) lol. I always think if something is weird, then it must not necessarily have no logic, but it may have an "hidden" sense, I say hidden in somewhere else, maybe not in that very book's text, but - who knows - in the author’s life facts. So I took a few minutes of my life to do a research about the social context in which Kafka was inserted, I mean, the political context of the Kingdom o...Read more

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