gaffen@ramblingreaders.org reviewed The Trial by Franz Kafka
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with …
A dark, futilistic book about a bureaucratic, authoritarian nightmare.
4 stars
I can see why people look at Kafka's work and can see a germ of fascism. The most chilling part of his writing is the relentless unstoppable nature of the forces involved. It is the perfect form of the unacountable, authoritarian state. A world so tied up in red tape it doesn't matter who's in charge, and even if it did there would be no way to change anything anyway.
Enjoyable in it's own, grimly farsical way.