I had to drop this because K is just so insufferable. Was this Kafkas intention or was it just in his jewish nature to write a horrible person and act like hes the victim? I got about halfway and these were my thoughts.The story starts with K immigrating to a new country, he gives him self the title of "surveyor" (doctor&lawyer) but he shows no ability of how to actually preform that job, or any job.Upon arriving to the new town the citizens are hesitant to take him in but allow him to stay out of the goodness of their hearts, which he fully takes advantage of. The local government provides him with ample opportunity, housing (which displaces local residence)food and supplies(at the cost of the villagers) and even a new job but K. expects even more.The cuckoo, the brood parasite, the jew Unable to create anything of its own, it can only destroy the nest, the culture, the people who act its host. upon giving his own residence, he destroys that too. A violent animal incapable of assimilation.Is there a reason to keep going or is it just gona be more jewish tricks?
K in the Castle and in the Trial is probably based on Kafka's dad. If you want a more likeable protagonist, read Amerika
>>24955193i enjoyed the Trial but K in the castle has been nothing but a bitch. he deserves everything bad that happens to him. I'll give America a read too.
>>24955195K in the Trial is an asshole too, he worms his way into that woman's room and sits down on her bed and she keeps trying to get him to leave and when she finally gets him out the door, he forces a long kiss on her, and she tries to avoid him for the rest of the story but he keeps stalking her thinking she's in love with him
>>24955123Sounds interesting. Reinforces the no outsiders/strangers mantra the ancients had.
>>24955123I'd be fucking pissed too if I came all the way out to some podunk ass dutchy for a land surveyor job that turned out to have been sent out by a clerical error, and then made me supervise two of the most irritating little dickwads the count's bureaucratic machine could throw at me.
>>24955123that's the joke, dummy
>>24955195I came away with the same impression reading The Trial and I'm pretty sure it was the point.There's a comedic element to The Trial in that while the government and the courts seem quite dystopian in that the way they act comes off as arbitrary, ruthless and aloof but there's also the fact that K is kinda... the worst possible subject. He's convinced he can win his trial through pure stubbornness and righteous indignation and never seeks professional assistance unless he's literally bullied into doing so.There's this really funny scene rather early on when he's attending his initial hearing with a judge and he spends the entire hearing monologuing about how unfairly he's being treated and how he's going to take down the entire corrupt institution, never even letting the judge a word in until he's dismissed. I don't think you're meant to think of K as this sympathetic everyman who's up against overbearing institutions. He's clearly meant to be kind of a shithead.
