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6132763 No.6132763 [Reply] [Original]

"The sole visible and indubiatable law that is imposed upon us is the nobility, and must we ourselves deprive ourselves of that one law?"

What does Kafka mean with this statement? Link to the story below. It is umbrella'd into Kafka's paradox stories, but this story seems to be only a paradox by coincidence with its accurate commentary on social progress.

http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/laws.htm

>> No.6133850

I am naive to have thought /lit/ would contribute to this post and think beyond the vapid meme factory that this board solely operates upon.

>> No.6133857

Maybe he's referring to the breakdown of class barriers? Even if this were a good literature discussion forum you wouldn't get a concrete answer on this.

>> No.6133919

>>6133857
The story is about observing privilege and power through class barriers, yet circumvents to the point that the privileges (laws) are almost imposible to discern, and that any real effort to apply progressive reform for the future is doomed by the faculties of the present. He is being nihilistic on class, or more broadly, social enlightenment.

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