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It's been many years. I'm trying this one again. #BookThreeOf2026

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Josef K. is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his 30th birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the nature of his crime is never revealed to him. When he is released, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze.

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A man- Josepf K.- is is accused of a crime never named, and is arrested, but never jailed or booked even by the police. Contradiction and complexity are at the heart of the story. It should be noted that while a different writer would paint K. As a good guy, Kafka does not. Rather, K. Is quite self involved. The result is a delightful book to read. It isn't an easy read always, but is well worth it.

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 44.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

Very unsettling.

Deep one!

I get it. I just didn‘t like it very much.

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#1001Books #ReadingEurope2020 #Austria

I struggled to get used to the writing style of this one, but I‘m enjoying the commentary on the legal profession and justice system

#ReallyRandomFebruary #Trial The obvious choice.The old Schocken editions, I still love the clean design.You know it‘s old when a trade size paperback is priced at $1.95 🙂

#throwbacktuesday to last December where I visited Kafka's Museum - I fear The #Trial may be a popular choice today! #reallyrandomfebruary @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Day 4 - #Trial #ReallyRandomFebruary
#TheTrial #FranzKafka

This is a very interesting classic!

On publishing Franz Kafka‘s works. How sad to think these extraordinary works of literature could‘ve remained in obscurity because of hatred and ignorance. How many Jewish works were actually lost? What a horrible world prejudice and racism create, I can‘t believe there are people today actively working to live in a world like that.

I enjoyed this a lot and I‘m glad to have finally got to this #1001books book. Atmospheric, frightening in a bureaucratic sort of way (eerily appropriate to today, I accidentally picked a very timely moment to read it), and it felt much more modern than I was expecting. Maybe it‘s not the type of literature that emotionally connects with me the most but I did enjoy it. I liked it more than Metamorphosis and less than The Castle

The sun came out to play while I was reading this weekend

I liked the thought-provoking parable towards the end of the story and the detailed analysis of the court system, otherwise the book was a bit too dry for my liking and the protagonist was somewhat annoying in his ruminations. Maybe it's the way it was written that didn't appear to me.

Oh I‘ve been wanting to read this book for a while now so I couldn‘t resist this beautiful hardback edition! 😍 Has anyone read this? Is it any good???

Very deep and interesting

My first DNF of the year..

#readingchallenge2019 #book #toread #bookly #goodreads #litsybook #dnf #franzkafka #thetrial

What did I just read? That was like one long, run on telling of a bad dream, and just as surreal. I get that this is a classic masterpiece for this reason but I just didn't comprehend it's significance to anything concrete.

He shouted in anger, but it was also the scream of one who sees another fall and, shocked and without thinking, screams against his own will.

"those who are facing a charge are the most attractive"

Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of it, no choice whether you accept it or turn it down, you have to defend yourself, then if you are tired its bad.

Kafka puts it this way;

"He no longer had any choice whether he would accept the trial or turn it down, he was in the middle of it and had to defend himself. If he was tired, then that was bad."

moments "when you think you‘ve achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all
the little, apparent successes that gave such joy."

It‘s only because of their stupidity that they‘re able to be so sure of themselves.

When you suddenly realise that they all belong to the same group

When you‘ve been in the world for thirty years already and had to make your own way through everything
yourself, which has been my lot, then you become hardened to surprises and don‘t take them too hard.

#Kafka was a much better philosopher than a story teller. The story bored me at times and the characters were underdeveloped. The social issues at the core of the book were fascinating however. But in a work of fiction I expect more emotion to tie everything together. Still, I'm glad I read this.
Thoughts? Anyone? ....

Books read #sofar in September! The Trial gets 1 star from this collection of Kafka's works - I should have bailed on it as I just didn't understand it. #SisforSeptember @CaliforniaCay

Well, it‘s been an experience, Joseph K. Bleak and absurd, it magnified important aspects of life to consider. I‘ll have to keep pondering it all to fully understand.

#BackpackEurope: Czech Republic ✔️

Kafka rarely names places in his works, but while visiting the Franz Kafka Museum, I learned that many choose to see Prague in what he describes. With this in mind, the walk that Joseph K takes in the end leads from the Old Town to Lesser Town, crossing the beautiful Charles Bridge.

Landmark for #BackpackEurope

Joseph K and his absurd trial have been occupying my visit to the Czech Republic, so I couldn‘t resist stopping at the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague. Not only does the collection of exhibits share the troubled life of the man behind K‘s story, but it does so in an odd way to make the learning experience “Kafkaesque.” Very interesting.

#BackpackEurope

Existentialism and the Czech Republic, here I come!

#BackpackEurope #MountTBR #ReadHarder

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”
- Franz Kafka, The Trial

I think I should try the old translation. The new translation has a chapter of just leftover pages. It‘s my understanding the first translation was out together in order to be more fluid. I had a hard time with finding the point of the story. #LitsyClassics #T #2018christyread

Working on these three. #25infive

• Funny, that‘s MY reaction to other people‘s children! Just kidding!! 😆 •

#bookquotes #quotes #funnystuff #currentlyreading

• finished another issue; SO WEIRD and intriguing. there‘s no telling if my questions will be answered in the end •

#books #classics #SerialReaderapp #currentlyreading #longreads #digitalreads

#fiercefeb Kafka could say #ithinkimparanoid for a reason.

Weirdness and looking for suggestions.So Stach has this 3 volume bio of Kafka . But , the publication order was Kafka‘s middle years , then end years, with early years just published. I think part of the issue was some papers related to early years were legally tied up. And my library doesn‘t have middle years published first. So , has anybody read them ? Should I read in publication order or Kafka‘s life order?thoughts?

• sooo interesting thus far... •

#currentlyreading #SerialReader #app #digitalreads #classics #existentialism

I gotta say this was not for me. I don‘t need the existential dread right now. Especially not wrapped up in a legal context. But this style of writing and this viewpoint is also generally just not for me.

Walked two miles to the library in the cold to pick up my holds so now its time for my electric blanket, some hot tea, and my choice for the book published posthumously category of the #bookriotreadharderchallenge.