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12141910 No.12141910 [Reply] [Original]

What was the trial about?

>> No.12142002

Joseph K. is persecuted by society for the crime of original sin, or, as most of us put it, being human.

>> No.12142034

did you read the first sentence?

>> No.12142045

It's the same storyline as Crime & Punishment, if you interpret it correctly.

>> No.12142573

>>12142045
It's not you fucking pseud

>> No.12142609

>>12141910
he did it

>> No.12142615

gay sex

>> No.12142618

Does it even matter?

>> No.12142632

Procedural justice is more real than actua justice and K never gets either. The law is a joke and we lawyers know it.

>> No.12142635

Story of Job

>> No.12142636

>>12141910
Being a gamer in 2018

>> No.12142650
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12142650

>don't you just hate this oppressive system and the bourgeoisie so much you want to tear it all down so jews can take power? Don't you, goyim??

>> No.12142830

The more you think about it the more confusing it becomes

>> No.12143355

>>12142650
two sides of the same coin, goy. you americans with your love for capitalism are retarded.

>> No.12143367

>>12143355
This. The Jews have it better now than ever in history. Not saying it’s a bad thing.

>> No.12143418

>>12141910
The Trial is unfinished, K. was guilty, read Kafka's private letters

>> No.12143526

>>12142045
It's not in the slightest, but Kafka was greatly inspired by Dostoevsky in writing it.

>> No.12143531

>>12143418
>K. was guilty,
Guilty of what? Of course he was charged as guilty, that happens in the book. What's in his letters that's not in the book.

>> No.12143801

The long conversation with the priest in the cathedral near the ending pretty much sums up the ideas of the book.

>No, you don't need to accept everything as true, only as necessary.
That shit hurt the first time I read it. So did the "Before the Law" parable.

>> No.12143811

>recently read a book called Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilty
>whole chapter on The Trial
>can only recall that it's supposedly about forcing oneself to be the ultimate judge rather than relying on external judges via trials, lawyers etc which can skew the truth

Is this correct, or is it deeper?

>> No.12143818

>>12142034
But he wasn't slandered.

>> No.12144248

>>12143811
I read it perhaps similarly, in that K is only guilty of playing into the system. He can ignore the farcical trial anytime he wants, but instead he chooses to give it more power over him. It’s paranoia or narcissism or both.

>> No.12144292

It wasn't about anything. Kafka's writing is pure.

>> No.12145381

>>12143801
Yes, I concur.

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>>12143801
>No, you don't need to accept everything as true, only as necessary.

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>> No.12145863

>>12142615
this

>> No.12145878

>>12141910
Kafka was a fake jew.
In fact, he was the one being jewed his whole life.

>> No.12145890

Was the Trial even about something? Did Kafka hide meaning in his novels?

>> No.12145977

Its about being left on read by the state.

>> No.12146077

>>12142636
t. gang weed

>> No.12146484

How bureaucracy gets nothing done

>> No.12146497

The fact that you don't know is kinda the point.

>> No.12146502

totalitarianism

>> No.12146513

>>12142650
catheterize yourself you fucking retard